148. They’re just hackers, living off the land - podcast episode cover

148. They’re just hackers, living off the land

Jul 16, 202419 minTranscript available on Metacast
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In an encore episode, we report on a specific kind of cyber attack targeting big industrial systems that is coming back into fashion: it’s called a ‘living off the land’ attack. What makes it particularly scary is that unlike traditional attacks in which bad actors break into a system and plant malicious code, in living off the land attacks, there’s nothing to find — bad actors leverage what’s already in the network.