Living Off the LLM: How LLMs Will Change Adversary Tactics

Summary

The article examines how threat actors may use on-device large language models inside living-off-the-land (LOTL) attack pipelines, where attackers rely on legitimate tools and processes already present on a system to avoid detection. It also addresses how to mitigate this threat.

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