In this quick demonstration, we are pitting Dridex, a big-news piece of malware hitting networks worldwide, against CylancePROTECT. What is Dridex? Well, I turned to Webopedia for the best answer on that
Dridex is a strain of bankingmalwarethat leverages macros inMicrosoft Officeto infect systems. Once a computer has been infected, Dridex attackers can steal banking credentials and other personal information on the system to gain access to the financial records of a user.
Dridex operates by first arriving on a user's computer as a maliciousspame-mailwith aMicrosoft Worddocument attached to the message. If the user opens the document, amacroembedded in the document surreptitiously triggers a download of the Dridex banking malware, enabling it to first steal banking credentials and then attempt to generate fraudulent...