Breaking the cycle of attack playbook reuse

Threat actors have learned an old business trick: find what works, and repeat it. Across countless cyberattacks, Bitdefender has observed adversaries consistently applying the same steps—the same techniques, the same security bypass patterns—across different targets. What’s effective in one environment is often just as effective in another, and attackers know it. This isn’t a coincidence. Once an attacker figures out how to evade a specific endpoint protection solution, they replicate the environment in a lab …