Thursday, December 21, 2017

Remember "He who is well prepared has half won the battle" - Are you prepared to deal with "Fileless malware" in 2018


Fileless malware attacks using PowerShell or Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) tools accounted for 52% of all attacks this year (2017)


Fileless malware attacks, also known as non-malware attacks, allow cybercriminals to skip steps that are needed to deploy malware-based attacks, such as creating payloads with malware to drop onto users' systems. Instead, attackers use trusted programs native to the operating system and native operating system tools like PowerShell and WMI to exploit in-memory access, as well as Web browsers and Office applications

For More:
https://www.darkreading.com/perimeter/fileless-malware-attacks-hit-milestone-in-2017/d/d-id/1330691

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