‘Fileless’ Cyber Attacks Up 432 Percent This Year: McAfee

Jul. 28, 2018

“One fileless threat, CactusTorch, uses the ‘DotNetToJScript’ technique which loads and executes malicious .NET assemblies straight from memory,” McAfee said in a statement.

Both consumers and corporate users can fall victim to this threat. In corporate environments, attackers use this vector to move laterally through the network.

“Fileless” malware takes advantage of the trust factor between security software and genuine, signed Windows applications.