“I am Optimus Prime, and I send this message to any surviving Autobots taking refuge among the stars. We are here. We are waiting.”
- Peter Cullen (1941 - 2026)
🚨 BREAKING:
All federal charges against Israeli citizen Uri Solomon, who was caught operating an illegal biological lab in Las Vegas to manufacture deadly pathogens, have been dropped. https://t.co/AUHTeDnB97
@yashmp2004 Uh, don't you use ad blockers? I do; I have 3 good ones in my extensions. And I use one from my desktop. Nothing wrong with an ad blocker. All it does is keep you protected from bullshit ads. I've been thinking about setting up a Pi Hole, I've just been on some super lazy shit.
Yes and it's now the dominant attack method.
79% of all cyberattack detections in 2024 involved no malware whatsoever. not 10%. not 30%. 79%.
it's called living off the land. LOLBins. fileless attacks.
here's how it works.
your operating system ships with powerful built-in tools. PowerShell. Windows Management Instrumentation. certutil.exe. mshta.exe. rundll32.exe. legitimate, Microsoft-signed utilities that IT teams use every day.
an attacker gets initial access a phishing email, a stolen credential, a compromised VPN and then never touches a malware file again.
instead they use your own tools against you.
PowerShell downloads and executes code directly in memory. nothing written to disk. certutil.exe a certificate management tool can download files from the internet. WMI can execute commands on remote machines across your entire network.
your antivirus sees PowerShell running. PowerShell runs every day. legitimate. signed by Microsoft. nothing to flag.
the attacker is already inside.
A real world example is Volt Typhoon. A Chinese state-sponsored group. spent years inside US critical infrastructure power grids, water systems, communications networks. CISA confirmed it. No custom malware. They used only tools that shipped with Windows.
Forensics teams found almost nothing to analyze afterward. when memory cleared, the evidence cleared with it.
the defense is behavioral detection. watching not what runs but how and why.
PowerShell running at 3am from a user who never uses it.
certutil downloading a file from an IP in a foreign country.
the tool is legitimate.
the behavior is the attack.