Introduction

If you want to stay on top of #PowerShell community and whatever is happening around the world related to PowerShell then you are at the right place friend! In this PowerShell Weekly Newsletter, I will cover content from the following sources, which you don’t want to miss 😎.

⚡ Editor picks – blogs, articles
Trending  Repositories on @Github
Trending Developers on @Github
⚡ Top Tweets
⚡ Top @reddit posts
⚡ New on @YouTube
⚡ Bestsellers on @leanpub

 

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Table of Contents


Editors Pick

Here are some of the articles specially picked by me for your reading…


Trending Github Repositories

Github repositories that are trending are a good way to find and contribute to some cool PowerShell projects! Following is the list of top trending PowerShell Github repositories.

Repository Description Stars Forks Num Of Stars Today
redcanaryco/atomic-red-team

Small and highly portable detection tests based on MITRE’s ATT&CK.

3,801 1,280 35
tokyoneon/Chimera Chimera is a (shiny and very hack-ish) PowerShell obfuscation script designed to bypass AMSI and commercial antivirus solutions. 151 41 57
actions/virtual-environments GitHub Actions virtual environments 1,245 533 28
Azure/Azure-Sentinel Cloud-native SIEM for intelligent security analytics for your entire enterprise. 835 463 8
janikvonrotz/awesome-powershell A curated list of delightful PowerShell modules and resources 2,115 245 22
MicrosoftDocs/win32 Public mirror for win32-pr 200 487 1
davidprowe/BadBlood BadBlood by @davidprowe, Secframe.com, fills a Microsoft Active Directory Domain with a structure and thousands of objects. The output of the tool is a domain similar to a domain in the real world. After BadBlood is ran on a domain, security analysts and engineers can practice using tools to gain an understanding and prescribe to securing Active… 495 69 26
PowerShellMafia/PowerSploit PowerSploit – A PowerShell Post-Exploitation Framework 7,462 2,862 44

 


Trending PowerShell Developers on Github

Following is the list of trending developers building some cool projects and tools in PowerShell on Github, and popular repositories in their profiles.

Developer Popular Repository Repository Description
Stefan Scherer packer-windows Windows Templates for Packer: Win10, Server 2016, 1709, 1803, 1809, 2019, 1903, 1909, 2004, Insider with Docker
Megan Marsh packer-examples Some example templates and scripts to help new packer users.
Doug Finke ImportExcel PowerShell module to import/export Excel spreadsheets, without Excel
Andy Zhang demo examples, best practices for k8s volumes on azure, AKS, acs-engine, helm, etc.
Genevieve Warren docs This repository contains .NET Documentation.
Warren Frame PSSQLite PowerShell module to query SQLite databases
Jakub Jareš Assert A set of advanced assertions for Pester to simplify how you write tests.
Richard Fennell AzurePipelines A single Repo to contain the source for ALL my Azure DevOps Build/Release Extensions. The packages can be found in the Azure DevOps Marketplace
Ryan Yates ISE_Cew My Addons to PowerShell ISE that helps with Saving Files, Git Commits & Default Pester Tests

 


Top Tweets

 

If you are into tech then you can’t miss these PowerShell related popular tweets in last week, here is the list of the top 10 most popular PowerShell tweets…

 

Twitter Handle Retweet Count Favorite Count Status Status URL
@BCSecurity1 177 356 Here is a #PowerShell implementation of #ZeroLogon (CVE-2020-1472) since everyone else has released POCs. This is a… https://t.co/3uaYI9u4RL [Tweet]
@0gtweet 50 174 Want to know how many times your Windows 10 booted since installation? Ask for BootId from KUSER_SHARED_DATA, which… https://t.co/Z73fdJYkb7 [Tweet]
@0gtweet 35 78 Did you hear about EntClientDb.edb? Never saw it described, while it contains a database of movies accessed by the… https://t.co/xi9faNBVph [Tweet]
@browninfosecguy 28 421 IT Admins to learn #PowerShell https://t.co/F2gauYjpTw [Tweet]
@Hakin9 27 32 HTTP-revshell – Powershell reverse shell using HTTP/S protocol with AMSI bypass and Proxy Aware… https://t.co/96uF98FezR [Tweet]
@JeffHicks 25 69 New to #PowerShell? Take a look at my Essential Resources for beginners https://t.co/qOmVod4MdY [Tweet]
@NZ_BenThomas 23 77 Incase you missed it, #AzureStackHCI includes a completely re-written version of SConfig! The best part? It’s writt… https://t.co/ezGAIahcYg [Tweet]
@bryceabdo 22 55 🔥Hunting Find: #Bazar backdoor devs test a new #PowerShell-based loader w/ persistence capability 🧪

– 0 VT detecti… https://t.co/vNQUb4HZvU

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@mattallford 21 62 [New Post] – New Pluralsight Course – Extending PowerShell

I’m really happy to have published my first course with… https://t.co/GPkVcnNSh0

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@markekraus 21 25 #PSConfBook Vol. 3 now 100% of chapters published! Get 22 chapters on #PowerShell #DevOps #AWS #Azure and more! All… https://t.co/iPZ6uIgzaU [Tweet]

 


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Top Reddit posts

PowerShell Reddit r/PowerShell is a vibrant community and you should be on board if you want to get onto the nerve of PowerShell Community, here is a list of top Reddit posts last week..

Author Title Ups Num of Comments URL
/u/CodingCaroline 11 PowerShell Automatic Variables Worth Knowing 245 33 [Post]
/u/l33t_d0nut PowerShell vs Python Reference 187 51 [Post]
/u/Tomahawksidewinder Not to long ago I saw a guy on here who shared a script that would speed on your computer, clear junk files, clear cache, clear temp files etc. He shared it on on github, does anyone know what I’m talking about or have a similar script? 74 35 [Post]
/u/snowtr Visual Studio Code 63 67 [Post]
/u/adampskib Show Outlook meetings in PowerShell profile? 39 17 [Post]
/u/krzydoug Get network adapters/IP info from all AD computers 25 6 [Post]
/u/adbertram PowerShell Logging: Recording and Auditing all the Things 24 1 [Post]
/u/PowerShellChallenge SecretManagement Module Preview Design Changes 24 0 [Post]
/u/cryptopotomous GUI Interface for the Masses 23 19 [Post]
/u/PowerShellChallenge SecretManagement Preview 3 18 0 [Post]

 


New on Youtube

Here are all new PowerShell videos uploaded on youtube.com last week!

 

Channel Title URL
SANS Blue Team

PowerShell 2020: State of the Art / Hack / Infection

[Video]
PDQ.com

PowerShell Tutorials with PDQ.com | 05 | Environment Variables

[Video]
Global Power BI User Group

Use Powershell Cmdlets for Power BI Administration

[Video]
Adam Driscoll

Getting Started with PowerShell Universal

[Video]
Microsoft Reactor

PowerShell Fundamentals

[Video]
Josh King

New Features and Use Cases, Oh My! – BurntToast PowerShell Module Stream #4

[Video]

 


Bestseller Books on Leanpub.com

Here are the top 10 book titles which were trending as bestsellers under the PowerShell category!

 

Rank Title Author(s)
1 The PowerShell Conference Book Mark Kraus, Michael Zanatta, Joe Houghes, Christian Coventry, Steven Judd, Phil Bossman, Adil Leghari, Arnaud Petitjean, Bill Kindle
2 Building PowerShell Modules Brandon Olin
3 PowerShell to C# and back Prateek Singh, Deepak Singh Dhami
4 PowerShell Guide to Python Prateek Singh
5 Building a PowerShell Tool Adam Bertram
6 PowerShell 101 Mike F Robbins
7 Shell of an Idea Don Jones
8 PowerShell Tips to Write By Adam Bertram
9 #PS7Now Jeff Hicks
10 Secrets of PowerShell Remoting The DevOps Collective, Inc.

 


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