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 ...

A wave of attacks that have recently affected banks and other enterprises used open-source penetration testing tools loaded directly into memory instead of traditional malware, making their detection ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...