Your IT stack is the enemy: How 84% of attacks evade detection by turning trusted tools against you

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 Rep