New warning: Super-stealthy fileless malware on the rise
Super-stealthy, fileless malware is increasingly being used to defeat cybersecurity systems and allow hackers to gain control of heavily guarded computer networks — and most organizations aren’t equipped it to detect, let alone defeat it, according to a new government warning. “We assess most organizations are not currently equipped to defend against these tactics,” states the New Jersey Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Cell in a recent public bulletin. The warning cautions that fileless or “non-malware” attacks could be used by cyberspies or those bent on theft or data destruction — as distinct from those cases where it has previously been employed in financial cybercrime. The New Jersey cell states it has “high confidence that fileless and ‘non-malware’ intrusion tactics pose high risk to organizations, both public and private, and will be increasingly employed by capable threat actors intent on stealing data or establishing persistence on networks … to enable future acts of sabotage.” The […]
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