The campaign exploits an Office vulnerability to deliver the modular XWorm RAT, chaining HTA, PowerShell, and in-memory .NET execution to sidestep detection and expand post-compromise control.
New forms of cyber attacks that can evade traditional threat detection are granting hackers access to critical information stored in personal computers and in the cloud, according to a new report.
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 ...
I was doing a standard review of Windows Defender Antivirus telemetry when I noticed an anomaly from a detection algorithm designed to catch a specific fileless technique. Telemetry showed a sharp ...
Cybercriminals are increasingly infecting computers with malware that resides only in memory in order to make their attacks harder to detect. Recent attacks launched with the Angler exploit kit — a ...
Microsoft's team behind Windows Defender ATP (the commercial version of the company's Windows Defender free antivirus) has identifieda new "fileless" malware campaign that can bypass standard ...
With increased deployment of security solutions on cloud infrastructure, hackers have started adopting detection evasion tactics from Windows desktop computers to cloud environments. One such tactic ...
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