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'Advanced' Intrusion Targeting a Marketing Research Company | Huntress

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'Advanced' Intrusion Targeting a Marketing Research Company | Huntress

Huntress identified and responded to an intrusion at a market research company that employed living-off-the-land techniques, including service creation and registry manipulation. The incident demonstrates the use of native operating system tools to avoid detection and establish persistence. Huntress has released detection guidance and mitigation strategies for similar attacks.

Why it matters: Security teams managing market research firms and other organizations should implement the detection methods and mitigation strategies provided to identify and respond to living-off-the-land attacks that use legitimate system tools.

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