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Capitalizing on malware-free tradecraft to launch undetectable breaches, attackers rely on legitimate system tools and living-off-the-land (LOTL) techniques to breach endpoints undetected. Malware-free attacks trade on the trust of legitimate tools, rarely generating a unique signature and relying on fileless execution.
Across all malicious activity tracked by CrowdStrike and reported in their 2023 Threat Hunting Report, 71% of detections indexed by the CrowdStrike Threat Graph were malware-free. A total of 14% of all intrusions relied on remote monitoring and management (RMM) tools based on activity tracked by Falcon OverWatch. Attackers increased their use of RMM tools for malware-free attacks by an astounding 312% year-over-year.
With FraudGPT signaling the start of a new era of weaponized AI and enterprises at risk of losing the AI war, the integration of AI, machine learning (ML) and generative AI into Extended Detection and Response (XDR) needs to be fast-tracked to thwart malware-free and new AI-driven attacks. XDR delivers the consolidation CISOs have been…
