Exchange servers are high-value targets. These attacks also tend to be advanced threats with highly evasive, fileless techniques. Keeping these servers safe from these advanced attacks is of utmost importance.
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Astaroth is back sporting significant changes. The updated attack chain maintains Astaroth’s complex, multi-component nature and continues its pattern of detection evasion.
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We discovered the polymoprhic threat Dexphot in October 2018. In the months that followed, we closely tracked the threat as attackers upgraded the malware, targeted new processes, and worked around defensive measures. One year’s worth of intelligence helped us gain insight not only into the goals and motivations of Dexphot’s authors, but of cybercriminals in general.
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A new fileless malware campaign we dubbed Nodersok delivers two very unusual LOLBins to turn infected machines into zombie proxies.
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Advanced technologies in Microsoft Defender ATP next-generation protection exposed and defeated a widespread fileless campaign that completely “lived off the land” throughout a complex attack chain that run the info-stealing backdoor Astaroth directly in memory
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