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Glossary: Security Fundamentals

Living off the land

Also written: LOTL, living-off-the-land

Attacking with tools already built into the operating system, such as PowerShell, certutil, schtasks, rundll32 and WMI, so nothing looks like malware. Logging every program's command line is how you catch it.

Where the book teaches it

Related terms

PowerShellAPT (advanced persistent threat)