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Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
Hey, Linux fans! Microsoft has got your back over fileless threats. Assuming you've bought into the whole Azure Security Center thing.
Hot on the heels of a similar release for Windows (if by "hot" you mean "nearly 18 months after") comes a preview aimed at detecting that breed of malware that inserts itself into memory before attempting to hide its tracks.
[...] Microsoft's detection feature scans the memory of all processes for the tell-tale footprint of a fileless toolkit, shrieking a warning in the Azure Security Center along with some details of the nasty. An admin can then decide what action to take (and what further investigation is needed).
The scan, according to the Windows giant, is not invasive and the "vast majority" take less than five seconds to run. More importantly for the those fearful of slurpage, memory analysis is performed on the host itself and the results only contain "security-relevant metadata and details of suspicious payloads".
(Score: 2) by stretch611 on Wednesday February 26 2020, @11:34PM
If my linux server had a virus...
I would expect the virus to use less resources than any bloated microsoft program.
I also would expect less information would be stolen by hackers than microsoft's "telemetry."
And to top it all off, I can get a virus for free.... not pay on ongoing license fee to microsoft.
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P