Security News > 2020 > September > Fileless Malware Tops Critical Endpoint Threats for 1H 2020

Cisco flagged threats like Kovter, Poweliks, Divergent and LemonDuck as the most common fileless malware.

Another prevalent critical threat to endpoints in the first half was dual-use tools that are typically leveraged for both exploitation and post-exploitation tasks.

The most commonly seen of these tools that malicious actors to scrape login credentials from a compromised computer in the first half of 2020 was Mimikatz, Cisco found.

Within Cisco's Endpoint Security solution, each IoC includes information about the MITRE ATT&CK tactics employed.

Persistence appears in 38 percent of critical IoCs, as opposed to 12 percent of IoCs overall.

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