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, ...

A sophisticated campaign utilizes a novel anti-detection method. Researchers have discovered a malicious campaign utilizing a never-before-seen technique for quietly planting fileless malware on ...

Even after 40 years of working to mitigate fileless attacks, the software industry is still struggling to eliminate them. By hijacking the control flow of a running application by exploiting a ...

An analysis of second-quarter malware trends shows that threats are becoming stealthier. A full 91.5 percent of malware was delivered using HTTPS-encrypted connections in the second quarter, ...

Malware has typically used files that it makes resident on a target machine to carry out an attack. But another class of malware called "fileless" does the opposite. The attack that the malware causes ...

Usually, malware is loaded from a computer’s hard drive when it starts up. Security software can provide protection by periodically scanning connected drives for previously identified threats.

Instead of installing a malicious application on the victim's hard drive like traditional malware, fileless malware is a threat that directly loads malicious code into memory. It tends to use two ...

Researchers at cybersecurity firm Wiz Inc. today detailed a newly discovered Python-based fileless malware that’s targeting cloud workloads. Dubbed “PyLoose,” the attack is said to be the first ...

OPSWAT’s Jan Miller explains how the threat landscape is changing, why legacy defences are failing and what businesses must ...

An alarming majority of malware (75 percent) is going undetected by “traditional malware solutions,” according to a new report. And nearly three-quarters of threats detected in the last quarter were ...

Detections of fileless malware soared by nearly 900% year-on-year in 2020 as threat actors worked hard to stay hidden from traditional security controls, according to Watchguard Technologies. The ...

An alarming majority of malware (75 percent) is going undetected by “traditional malware solutions,” according to a new report. And nearly three-quarters of threats detected in the last quarter were ...