When legitimate tools go rogue

This Talos Incident Response summary explains that attackers increasingly "live off the land" by abusing built-in OS binaries (LOLBins), widely available open-source tools like DonPAPI, credential dumpers (Mimikatz), PsExec, and legitimate RMM/remote-access software to harvest credentials, move laterally, and maintain stealthy persistence; it recommends strong asset management, behavioral baselining, continuous monitoring, and aligning telemetry with current threat intelligence to detect such activity.