When it comes to endpoint security, a handful of threats make up the bulk of the most serious attack tools and tactics. In the first half of 2020, the most common critical-severity cybersecurity ...

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 ...

Endpoint security risk has become rampant, with 54% of respondents in a Ponemon Institute study saying their company has experienced a successful attack. The most common culprit? Fileless malware. The ...

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, ...

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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 ...

Fileless malware attacks can be seen as the perfect crime of opportunity. The initial vector of an attack appears as a seemingly innocuous business email with a link to a bill or other update. However ...

It’s a truism that just like organizations adapt, so too do criminals. For example, anyone who has ever seen a Wells Fargo commercial knows that there was a time when stagecoaches were a normative ...

fileless malware is not new, but it is quickly gaining traction among attackers as a common method of compromise. After all, it is stealthy, efficient and capable of evading conventional security ...

The nature fileless malware means it often cannot be rebuffed by simple antivirus protection and is incredibly difficult to detect once it is in the system. This makes it critical to get in front of ...