How Hackers Are Using Living-Off-the-Land Binaries

Cybersecurity Business with Fexingo: Security Companies, Breaches, and Enterprise Defense · Jul 5, 2026 · 8m · transcript

In Episode 94 of Cybersecurity Business with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore the growing threat of Living-Off-the-Land (LOL) binaries — a technique where attackers use legitimate system tools like PowerShell, WMI, and Certutil to evade detection. They break down real-world cases, including the 2021 Kaseya supply-chain attack where REvil used LOLbins to move laterally, and the 2020 SolarWinds breach where attackers abused trusted software. Lucas explains why this technique is so effective against signature-based defenses and how security teams are shifting to behavior-based detection and…