3 Reasons Attackers Are Using Your Trusted Tools Against You (And Why You Don’t See It Coming)

For years, cybersecurity has followed a familiar model: block malware, stop the attack. Now, attackers are moving on to what’s next. Threat actors now use malware less frequently in favor of what’s already inside your environment, including abusing trusted tools, native binaries, and legitimate...

Everyday tools, extraordinary crimes: the ransomware exfiltration playbook

Data exfiltration activity increasingly leverages legitimate native utilities, commonly deployed third-party tools, and cloud service clients, reducing the effectiveness of static indicators of compromise IOCs and tool-based blocking strategies. The Exfiltration Framework systematically normalize...

Living Off the Land: How to Defend Against Malicious Use of Legitimate Utilities

Living-off-the-land binaries LOLBins are no joke: Cyberattackers have been increasingly making use of them to hide their malicious work from security solutions. It’s time for threat hunters and IT security staff to familiarize themselves with how these are used in the attack chains of some of the...