Ransomware Attacks Down, Fileless Malware Up in 2018

Minimalist · Aug 28, 2018

The use of fileless malware in attacks continues to grow and now represents 42 out of 1,000 endpoint attacks, according to an analysis of 2018 data by one security firm. The uptick represents a 94 percent increase in the use of fileless-based attacks between January and June 2018.
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https://threatpost.com/threatlist-ransomware-attacks-down-fileless-malware-up-in-2018/

Minimalist · Nov 16, 2018

Vaporworms: New breed of self-propagating fileless malware to emerge in 2019

WatchGuard Technologies’ information security predictions for 2019 include the emergence of vaporworms, a new breed of fileless malware with wormlike properties to self-propagate through vulnerable systems, along with a takedown of the internet itself and ransomware targeting utilities and industrial control systems.
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https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2018/11/16/self-propagating-fileless-malware/

guest · Feb 5, 2019

Minimalist said: ↑

Vaporworms: New breed of self-propagating fileless malware to emerge in 2019

https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2018/11/16/self-propagating-fileless-malware/
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Why vaporworms might be the scourge of 2019
February 5, 2019
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2019/02/05/vaporworms/

At the time of the initial prediction, our team was fairly sure this idea was more than conjecture, but now the advent of the vaporworm in 2019 seems to be an abject certainty.

Simply put, we suspected that cyber criminals would copy this trend, turning traditional fileless attacks into vaporworms by adding network exploits to proliferate across the internet automatically without any user interaction.
The dawn of the vaporworm
Just one short month after we predicted the unholy emergence of self-propagating fileless malware, researchers at Trend Micro discovered a fileless Trojan that seemed to present some of those very same characteristics.
Avoid becoming a vaporworm victim in 2019
It still remains to be seen how prevalent vaporworms will become. Every organization, regardless of size or industry, must now be prepared to defend against these attacks.
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