Warning: Fileless Attacks Are Rising

Ever heard of fileless attacks? This is malicious code gets a foothold on your server. Not through a certain file or a document, but by infiltrating the server RAM. Thus, exploiting various processes and vulnerabilities of the server software. They can do this via vulnerable web applications, specially formed requests, and so on.

Fileless Attack Prevention Advice – From the Experts

Reputable sources of protection against fileless attacks stress that you need to “Keep your software up to date. As inconvenient as they can be, software updates are usually done to patch critical security vulnerabilities.” It’s one of the best practices for fileless malware protection.

 As far as Microsoft products are concerned, Comparitech tells us “How to stop fileless malware”: “The main defense against any type of malware is to keep your software up to date. As Microsoft has been very active in taking steps to block the exploitation of PowerShell and WMI, installing any updates from Microsoft should be a priority.”