Flying Under The Radar: The Biggest Malware Threats Hiding In Plain Sight

guest · May 7, 2019

Flying Under The Radar: The Biggest Malware Threats Hiding In Plain Sight
May 6, 2019
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbes...e-threats-hiding-in-plain-sight/#77c2b95319bd

A few years ago, attackers' primary objective was to avoid detection — second only to making a profit. But recently, these criminals have realized a critical truth: the longer they hold an infected endpoint, the more their profit increases.

Enter fileless malware, a new approach to cyber attacks that allows invaders to evade detection far longer than traditional methods, giving them an upper hand against enterprise security defenses.
These attacks are proving to be particularly useful against businesses because the majority of outdated enterprise security solutions are designed to detect file-based malware that resided on the disk, not in memory.

As business leaders, the time has come to pivot our enterprise security strategies. Here’s a look at four of the top malware families affecting businesses around the world, and what I believe we can expect in 2019 [...]
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itman · May 7, 2019

Research from the Ponemon Institute found that fileless malware attacks accounted for about 35% of all attacks in 2018, and are almost 10 times more likely to succeed than file-based attacks.
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guest · May 8, 2019

Nothing really surprising for us.

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