InfoWorld: For discerning hackers, malware is so last year

Fraudsters increasingly rely on legitimate administrator tools instead of malware to successfully breach systems and steal data

By Fahmida Y. Rashid
Sep 4, 2015

In the aftermath of a data breach, security teams typically go hunting for the malicious file the perpetrators used to break in and carry out their plans. But according to several recent studies, an increasing proportion of attackers are bypassing malware entirely and using social engineering and legitimate administration tools to craft their campaigns.

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