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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Cyber threat actors are constantly developing more and more sophisticated techniques to infect systems. The best-known method is using files that contain and inject malware, sent through systems such ...

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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 new tool manipulates Windows Registry in unique ways to evade security detections and is likely being used by ransomware groups for initial network access. A novel remote access trojan (RAT) being ...

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 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 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 ...

An alarming majority of malware (75 percent) is going undetected by “traditional malware solutions,” according to a new report. And nearly three-quarters of threats detected in the last quarter were ...