Fileless Banking Malware Attackers Break In, Cash Out, Disappear

SINT MAARTEN—Cybercriminals who used fileless, memory-based malware to carry out attacks on nearly 150 enterprises worldwide earlier this year were onto something. The attackers already had remote access to the bank’s networks through the malware, described in February, but once they were inside,...

Fileless Memory-Based Malware Plagues 140 Banks, Enterprises

Attackers have been using well-known, standard utilities to carry out attacks on organizations around the world, and covering their tracks by wiping their activity from the machine’s memory before its rebooted. The attackers, who may be connected to the GCMAN and Carbanak groups, aren’t using...