August 16, 2026
- "Bring Your Own EDR" — Akamai's security research team walked through how a trusted, commercially deployed endpoint detection agent can be weaponized as a covert delivery and persistence mechanism — a trojan horse that rides in on software defenders already trust and whitelist. The technique inverts the usual EDR-evasion problem: rather than dodging the sensor, the operator co-opts it. Akamai · Offensive & Red Team
in Bring Your Own EDR: Turning a Commercial Endpoint Agent Into a Trojan Horse