Antivirus, are you happy? Should not

Are you happy with your antivirus? More than half of last year's attacks were fileless or used "malware-free" techniques, as hackers increasingly turn to credential theft to breach corporate .

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Malware-free tactics accounted for 51% of attacks in 2019, up from 40% the previous year, although that number was driven by a sharp increase in North American attacks.

About 74% of the attacks in the region did not use malware, while these techniques accounted for 25% of the Indo-Pacific attacks, according to the Global Threat Report 2020 of .

The evaluation of the annual s for the threat landscape is based on the company's data collected from more than 3 trillion events per week in 176 countries, and consultations from its intelligence team, which monitors national agency hackers, hacktivists and many others.

The growing popularity of attacks without malware shows us the need not to rely solely on anti-virus tools.

Non-malware attacks are those that do not need any files on the victim's disk. They could be attacks where the malicious s run from memory, from boot, or credential theft attacks that simply require you to click on a link. Non-malware attacks usually require different detection techniques to detect and block them, which makes today's antiviruses completely inadequate.

New methods also require new practices, as it is impossible to reach a new point using the same familiar path.

These attacks have come to remind us that there is always another way. New roads lead to new discoveries and of course the one who takes the risk wins first, if things go well. This applies to both sides (hackers-antivirus)

Future protections, then, should study the behavior of each of us who uses computer systems. Once they learn how the owner works they will be able to block behaviors that do not seem familiar, or at least ask the owner: is this happening, is it you?

This may sound like a science fiction scenario, but it's not that far off if you think about the development in the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning. It is impossible to fight threats with stupid antivirus designed just to compare virus samples.

Here is the good and bad news:

The emergence of cloud-based antiviruses is very encouraging (cloud). At present their technology is simple, as it continues to compare virus samples. But over the years, the computing power of the cloud will help artificial intelligence and machine learning systems run on every user's PC.

Only that the hackers once again have the lead.

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