Living Off the Land Attack: Hackers Using Your Own Tools Against You

Podcast: The Backup Wrap-Up · W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup)

Opublikowano: 2026-03-16

A living off the land attack is one of the sneakiest techniques in a ransomware operator's playbook — and in this episode, Dr. Mike Saylor breaks down exactly what it is, how it works, and what your organization can actually do about it. Instead of bringing their own tools into your environment (which might trip your alarms), attackers just use what's already there. PowerShell. WMI. RDP. The same tools your admins run every single day. To your monitoring systems, it looks completely normal. That's the whole point. Mike and Curtis cover why attackers prefer your tools ov...