Security professionals are devising targeted risk management strategies for fileless malware. Malware attacks often leverage Microsoft’s powerful, open source scripting language. Malicious PowerShell scripts can be difficult to detect and harder to investigate because they may leave few digital forensic traces. The financial sector has been particularly hard hit by the “fileless” malware, security expert says. Organizations need to create a specific mitigation plan with many components, security experts say. A fail-safe operation ensures that the process does not propagate beyond the immediate failure of equipment, process or system.”]
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