Camellia Chan is the CEO and Cofounder of Flexxon, a next-generation hardware cybersecurity solutions provider with a global presence. In 2024 alone, fileless malware like HeadCrab doubled its grip on ...
Although the total number of malware attacks went down last year, malware remains a huge problem. While the number of attacks decreased, the average cost of a data breach in the U.S. is rising, ...
Fileless malware uses system files and functions native to the operating systems to evade detection and deliver its payload. Learn more about this invisible threat and the best approach to combat it.
The malware landscape is in a constant flux, with new trends and techniques appearing and/or going out of fashion on a monthly basis. Keeping an eye on what's what involves analyzing tens of thousands ...
Imagine a malicious software that is almost invisible to security experts. Pretty scary to be blindsided, right? These threats are known as fileless malware. The malware is called “fileless” because ...
Scanning files you open and save isn’t enough to catch malware these days. Here’s how Microsoft Defender tools can help you catch attacks that are missed by traditional security software. When you get ...
Even the most unskilled and inexperienced thieves stick to some basic principles – operate incognito and do not get caught. It might sound obvious, but it is the difference between success and failure ...
fileless malware is a form of malware that resides solely in memory and leaves little or no evidence on the hard disk. A truly fileless attack could be an exploit on a website using Java ...
Last week, in part 2 of this series on fileless attacks, we discussed countermeasures — and how all those countermeasures can be circumvented. Yet, if all countermeasures can be circumvented, how does ...
Even though the term "fileless malware" was only coined recently, fileless attacks have been around for more than three decades. You may have heard of the more well-known names, like buffer-overflow, ...
Microsoft has been working on an answer to some clever new techniques used in penetration-testing kits to bypass Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP), its key security platform for ...