Cybersecurity is an arms race, with defensive tools and training pushing threat actors to adopt even more sophisticated and evasive intrusion techniques as they attempt to gain a foothold in victim networks. Most modern endpoint protection (EPP) services are capable of easily identifying traditional malware payloads as they are downloaded and saved on the endpoint, which means attackers have now turned to fileless malware techniques that never touch the victim’s storage.

We’ve covered the anatomy of an endpoint attack in detail before, so let’s dig into fileless malware specifically and examine a real-world endpoint infection to illustrate key defense best practices you need to have in place today.