Active Directory Under Siege: Why Preemptive Cyber Defense Is the Only Way Forward 

This Morphisec analysis warns that Active Directory is a primary, high-impact attack surface: attackers are stealing NTDS.dit and abusing AD authentication, exploiting Outlook RCEs and AD-specific flaws to enable credential theft, lateral movement, and domain takeover across hybrid environments; the paper advocates preemptive, execution‑blocking defenses (AMTD/virtual patching) to stop in-memory and identity-driven attacks before execution.