Security News > 2017 > March > Fileless attack framework was used in many recent attacks (Help Net Security)
2017-03-17 19:05
In the last month or so, a number of security companies spotted attackers targeting a variety of organizations around the world with spear-phishing emails delivering PowerShell backdoors (some of them fileless), misusing legitimate utilities, and communicating with C&C servers through DNS traffic. In February, Kaspersky Lab researchers said the targets were mostly banks, and that the initial infection vector was unknown. Then, in March, Cisco Talos researchers detailed how the backdoor RAT used by the … More →
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