Tag: fileless

12 MAR

McAfee reports surge in healthcare, fileless malware, and cryptocurrency mining attacks

Cybersecuirty firm McAfee is recording about 478 new cyber threats every minute, and the latest surge in attacks comes in the form of healthcare fraud, fileless malware, and cryptocurrency mining. McAfee Labs’ Threat Report for March reveals a 211 percent increase in disclosed security incidents related to healthcare experiences in 2017. File…Read More

08 FEB

A rash of invisible, fileless malware is infecting banks around the globe

(credit: INVISIBLE-MAN_1933_James Whale) Two years ago, researchers at Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab discovered their corporate network was infected with malware that was unlike anything they had ever seen. Virtually all of the malware resided solely in the memory of the compromised computers, a feat that had allowed the infection to remain undetected for six months or […]