Wiz Research team recently detected a new fileless attack targeting cloud workloads. The attack consists of Python code that loads an XMRig Miner directly into memory using memfd, a known Linux fileless technique: https://www.wiz.io/blog/pyloose-first-python-based-fileless-attack-on-cloud-workloads

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Shout out to Malwarebytes Labs team for this #readoftheday! I am a huge fan of anything Living-off-the-land binaries (#LOLBINS) and I this article provides a great description of what they are and how #filelessattacks compare and contrast. Enjoy and Happy Hunting!

Fileless attacks: How attackers evade traditional AV and how to stop them
https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/business/2023/04/fileless-attacks-how-attackers-evade-traditional-av-and-how-to-stop-them

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