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Defending against fileless malware
19/06/2017
By Israel Levy, CEO of BUFFERZONE, in information age.
Fileless malware has attracted a lot of attention recently, due to the difficulty that security solutions are having in defending against it.
Cyber attackers are aware of the difficulties defenders have in fighting the phenomenon of fileless malware, and are concentrating much of their efforts on further developing this type of attack. Fileless attacks increased significantly throughout 2016 and are still on the rise.
Understanding fileless malware
To start, “fileless malware” is a bit of a misnomer, since it’s not always completely fileless. Various other names have been suggested, including “bodiless malware,” “non-malware attacks,” advanced volatile threats (AVTs) and “living off the land” attacks. However, fileless malware seems to have become the accepted term, so we’ll stick with that.
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