How Security Teams Use Memory Scanning to Stop Fileless Malware

Cybersecurity Business with Fexingo: Security Companies, Breaches, and Enterprise Defense · Jun 29, 2026 · 8m · transcript

Fileless malware has become one of the most dangerous threats in cybersecurity, exploiting legitimate system tools like PowerShell and WMI to evade traditional signature-based defenses. In this episode, Lucas and Luna examine how security teams are deploying in-memory scanning techniques to detect and block attacks that never touch the disk. They discuss the technical challenge of scanning volatile memory at scale, the role of endpoint detection and response in capturing process behavior, and a real-world case where a major financial institution caught a fileless ransomware variant in under…