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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 file telling it how to automate the build process (compilation, packaging, testing, and deployment.)...

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 notable findings, the report reveals that fileless malware and cryptominer attack rates grew by near...

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 announced as quickly as possible. When a security vulnerability is discovered, the software vendor is ...

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