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3 Reasons Attackers Are Using Your Trusted Tools Against You (And Why You Don’t See It Coming)

ID: e0289dd4-c6f9-5d14-a823-3d289f4bd672

STIX ID: report--e0289dd4-c6f9-5d14-a823-3d289f4bd672

Feed Name: The Hacker News

Date Published: 2026-04-01

Date Updated: 2026-04-24

Author: [email protected] (The Hacker News)

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**Executive summary:** The article warns that attackers increasingly abuse trusted native tools (LOTL) such as PowerShell, WMIC, and Certutil to evade detection, argues that organizations lack visibility and control over internal attack surfaces and unnecessary access, and promotes a complimentary Bitdefender Internal Attack Surface Assessment to identify and prioritize those risks.

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