Non-malware attacks are on the rise. According to a study by the Ponemon Institute , 29 percent of the attacks organizations faced in 2017 were fileless. And in 2018, this number may increase up to 35 percent. So, what are non-malware attacks, how do they differ from traditional threats, why are they so dangerous, and what can you do to prevent them? Keep reading and you’ll learn the answer to each of these questions. Non-malware attacks: what are they? Non-malware or fileless attack is a type of cyber attack in which the malicious code has no body in the file system. In contrast to the attacks carried out with the help of traditional malicious software, non-malware attacks don’t require installing any software on a victim’s machine. Basically, hackers have found a way to turn Windows against itself and carry out fileless attacks using built-in Windows tools. The idea behind non-malware attacks is pretty simple: instead of dropping custom tools that could be flagged as malware, ...
