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GUEST RESEARCH: Aqua Security, the pioneer in cloud native security, today published its 2023 cloud native threat report, which summarises research an...

GUEST OPINION by Amir Jerbi, co-founder and CTO at Aqua Security: At last the truth has been revealed and the enduring ‘agentless vs. agent’ debate is...

Security software isnt always enough. Knowledge and precaution are essential weapons in your arsenal against malware.

GUEST OPINION: Fileless attacks are an advanced kind of malware that rank among today's most dangerous security threats. In fact, in 2017 the Pone...

Ransomware and fileless malware are both seeing large surges this year, according to a newly released report from WatchGuard Technologies.

Malware authors are crafting their wares to bypass scans on Windows systems altogether, using a number of tricks to avoid being put under the microsco...

Attackers abuse Microsoft dev tool to deploy Windows malware By 01:00 PM Threat actors are abusing the Microsoft Build Engine (MSBuild) to deploy remote access tools (RATs) and information-stealing malware filelessly as part of an ongoing campaign. MSBuild (msbuild.exe) is a legitimate and open-source Microsoft development platform, similar to the Unix make utility, for building applications. This development tool can build apps on any Windows system if provided with an XML schema project ...

WatchGuard Report: Fileless Malware, Cryptominers and Network Attacks Have Surged SEATTLE – March 30, 2021 – WatchGuard Technologies, a global leader in network security and intelligence, multi-factor authentication (MFA), advanced endpoint protection, and secure Wi-Fi, today released its Internet Security Report for Q4 2020. The report includes exciting new insights based on endpoint threat intelligence following WatchGuard’s acquisition of Panda Security in June 2020. Among its most ...

Fighting Fileless Malware, Part 3: Mitigations Attackers can dodge the countermeasures you employ against fileless malware. So how do you mitigate the damage? Last week, in part 2 of this series on fileless attacks, we discussed countermeasures — and how all those countermeasures can be circumvented. Yet, if all countermeasures can be circumvented, how does anyone begin to mitigate the impact of fileless attacks? The most common and accepted solution is to patch whenever a vulnerability is an...

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