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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

The malware landscape is in a constant flux, with new trends and techniques appearing and/or going out of fashion on a monthly basis. Keeping an eye on what's what involves analyzing tens of thousands ...

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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 attacks are growing. According to research by the Sans Institute, issued in their 2017 Threat landscape survey, a third of organisations reported experiencing fileless attacks. So why ...