40 Cyberattacks Your Antivirus and XDR Miss

The Invisible Threat: Why Antivirus Fails

The threat landscape has drastically evolved. Attacks today don't need files or raise obvious alerts, hiding within legitimate processes. Traditional solutions like antivirus, EDR, or even XDR react too late—after the damage is done.
That reactive model is their greatest weakness. Techniques like fileless malware, persistent trojans, BIOS tampering or privilege escalation operate under the radar and bypass detection.

🧬 What Makes INVISIA Different?

At SecureLab, in alliance with Phoenix Technologies, we developed INVISIA: an active cybersecurity solution that combines:

• Layer 0 detection (firmware) powered by FirmGuard
• Autonomous defense at Layer 1 (operating system)
• AI optimized to detect and respond without human input

While others monitor the surface, INVISIA acts from the system's core.

📂 The 40 Most Common Attack Vectors and How We Block Them

We categorized the most frequent attacks into five groups. For each, INVISIA neutralizes the threat before it succeeds:

🔸 Fileless Attacks

• Malicious PowerShell
• RunKey and WMI persistence
• Abuse of LOLBins (Living Off the Land Binaries)

INVISIA: monitors memory behavior and blocks execution instantly without waiting for disk writes.

🔸 BIOS/UEFI Attacks (Firmware)

• Persistent BIOS backdoors
• UEFI variable tampering
• BadUSB at firmware level

FirmGuard + INVISIA: unauthorized hook detection, secure firmware restore, and cryptographic port validation.

🔸 Lateral Movement & Privilege Escalation

• Pass-the-Hash
• Remote Desktop with exposed credentials
• SMB and WinRM exploitation

INVISIA: network behavior correlation, early alerts, and profile-based blocking.

🔸 Classic Malware & Ransomware

• Ryuk, Conti, LockBit
• Batch-based encryptors
• Ransomware as a Service (RaaS)

INVISIA: backup immutability, anomalous process blocking, and automatic rollback.

🔸 Phishing & Credential Dumping

• Advanced keyloggers
• Session token abuse
• DNS poisoning redirections

INVISIA: DNS manipulation protection, suspicious process isolation, and live session defense.

📊 Comparison: Antivirus vs. XDR vs. INVISIA

Real Cases: How We Anticipate Invisible Threats

At the SecureLab technical blog, we demonstrate how INVISIA detects advanced threats like malicious drivers, embedded payloads, and stealth system tampering that other tools miss. These invisible attacks are stopped before execution.

"The real problem isn't that platforms don't act...
it's that they do so when it's already too late."
— SecureLab Blog