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Advanced technologies in Microsoft Defender ATP’s Antivirus exposed and defeated a widespread fileless campaign that completely “lived off the land” throughout a complex attack chain that run the info-stealing backdoor Astaroth directly in memory

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Dismantling a fileless campaign: Microsoft Defender ATP next-gen protection exposes Astaroth attack

July 8, 2019 admin AI and machine learning, Antimalware Scan Interface (AMSI), Astaroth, behavior monitoring, Command-line scanning, cybersecurity, Endpoint security, Execution stage, fileless, fileless malware, heuristics, Initial access stage, living-off-the-land, Microsoft Defender ATP, Security Intelligence, Threat protection, Windows Defender Antivirus, Windows Security, WMIC

Credit to Author: Eric Avena| Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2019 16:00:51 +0000

Advanced technologies in Microsoft Defender ATP next-generation protection exposed and defeated a widespread fileless campaign that completely “lived off the land” throughout a complex attack chain that run the info-stealing backdoor Astaroth directly in memory

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Informing Your Security Posture: How Cybercriminals Blend into the Background

January 29, 2019 admin Advanced persistent threats, Current News, cybercriminals, digitally signed malware, fileless malware, Security

Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 14:00:23 +0000

Maintaining protection over an enterprise’s critical data, systems and assets is a continual uphill battle. Not only are chances good that the business’s digital footprint is growing through new applications, but hackers are also constantly bolstering their capabilities to silently breach platforms and maintain a presence under the radar of the IT team. In the…

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New ‘Under the Radar’ report examines modern threats and future technologies

December 5, 2018 admin apac, Artificial Intelligence, behavioral detection, blocking at delivery, emea, emotet, EternalBlue, Exploits, fileless, fileless malware, future of cybercrime, malicious spam, Malwarebytes, Malwarebytes news, Powershell, report, SamSam, sorebrect, Texas, trickbot, under the radar, web blocking, web protection, worm

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2018 13:01:44 +0000

Malwarebytes released a new report called “Under the Radar: The Future of Undetected Malware” that takes a look at current threats using next generation tricks, and how current security technologies stand up to these threats, as well as the threats to come.

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Fileless malware: part deux

October 5, 2018 admin dynamic detection, fileless malware, fileless ransomware, malware analyst, Malwarebytes news, security researcher, signatures, static detection

Credit to Author: Vasilios Hioureas| Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2018 15:00:00 +0000

In part two of this series on fileless malware, our malware analyst walks readers through two demonstrations of fileless malware attacks and shows the problems with detecting them using static signatures.

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Out of sight but not invisible: Defeating fileless malware with behavior monitoring, AMSI, and next-gen AV

September 27, 2018 admin Antimalware Scan Interface (AMSI), behavior monitoring, cybersecurity, fileless malware, Windows 10, Windows 10 in S mode, Windows Defender Antivirus, Windows Defender ATP, Windows Defender AV

Credit to Author: Windows Defender Research| Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2018 16:00:24 +0000

Removing the need for files is the next progression of attacker techniques. While fileless techniques used to be employed almost exclusively in sophisticated cyberattacks, they are now becoming widespread in common malware, too.

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