Your Biggest Security Risk Isn’t Malware — It’s What You Already Trust
Summary: Data from over 700,000 high-severity incidents shows that 84% of attacks now involve misuse of legitimate tools such as PowerShell, WMIC, or Certutil to avoid detection, a technique known as Living off the Land. A standard Windows 11 machine ships with hundreds of native binaries that can be leveraged this way, and research cited in the article finds up to 95% of access to potentially risky tools is unnecessary.
Why it matters: If 84% of attacks run through tools your IT team uses every day, your EDR alerts are asking analysts to judge intent in real time, and by the time an alert is validated the attacker may already have moved laterally and established persistence.
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