Attackers shift away from file-based techniques

Cyber attack methods are becoming more sophisticated in order to bypass traditional file-scanning protection systems according to a new study. Endpoint protection specialist SentinelOne has used filtered data from more than one million SentinelOne Enterprise Platform agents deployed worldwide to carry out behavioral analysis of malware programs that bypassed firewalls and network controls to infect devices. This data has been used to create the company's first Enterprise Risk Index which focuses on three risk categories. These are, attacks from document-based files, largely associated with Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF, attacks detected from traditional portable executable-based files, and attacks detected only… [Continue Reading]