It’s 3:37 am on a Sunday in Los Angeles, and one of the leading financial services firms on the West Coast is experiencing the second week of a living-off-the-land (LOTL) attack. A nation-state cyberattack squad has targeted the firm’s pricing, trading and valuation algorithms for cryptocurrency gain. Using common tools, the nation state has penetrated the firm’s infrastructure and is slowly weaponizing it for its own gain.According to CrowdStrike’s 2025 Global Threat Report, nearly 80% of modern attacks, including those in finance, are now malware-free, relying on adversaries exploiting valid credentials, remote monitoring tools and administrative utilities with breakout times (sometimes less than a minute).No one in the SOC or across the cybersecurity leadership team suspects any [...]
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One malicious prompt gets blocked, while ten prompts get through. That gap defines the difference between passing benchmarks and withstanding real-world attacks — and it's a gap most enterprise [...]
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CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz highlighted in his RSA Conference 2026 keynote that the fastest recorded adversary breakout time has dropped to 27 seconds. The average is now 29 minutes, down from 48 min [...]
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