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Enterprises CAN defend against new wave of anti-forensic cyber-attacks

Posted on February 10, 2017February 10, 2017 By Davey Winder

Researchers agree that the trend of fileless malware attacks is increasing, so how easy is it to spot and identify?

Kaspersky Lab’s Global Research & Analysis Team spotted something unusual recently: more than 140 global enterprises have been hit by ‘fileless attack’ where threat actors use anti-forensic techniques to evade detection.

Not very well, you may say, as Kaspersky managed to detect them. However, glib remarks aside, these incidents point to a seriously worrying threat scenario used by advanced actors to exfiltrate data before they are spotted.

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News Tags:APT, Defence, Enterprise, Kaspersky, Malware

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