Navigating Malware-Free Attacks

We started with a simple question: what do modern attackers do? After analysing over 700,000 security incidents, one technique was almost universally present: a staggering 84% of major attacks incorporated Living Off The Land (LOTL) tactics, using the same native tools and utilities your administrators use every day. If the tools are the same, how do you tell an attacker from a user? To find out, we turned our focus to legitimate usage data. By comparing this legitimate activity side-by-side with the malicious activity, we found quite a lot of interesting patterns. Join us 16 September 2025 at 1:00 p.m. BST, as the Bitdefender team and ISC2 share actionable insights from real-world attacks to better detect threats hiding in plain sight.