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What is the purpose of this PR / why it is needed?

Identifies suspicious process accessing the Windows hosts file for potential tampering. Adversaries can hijack the hosts files to block traffic to download/update servers or redirect the traffic to arbitrary servers under their control.

What type of change does this PR introduce?


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Any specific area of the project related to this PR?


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@rabbitstack rabbitstack added the rules Anything related to detection rules label Mar 26, 2025
Identifies suspicious process accessing the Windows hosts file for potential tampering. Adversaries can hijack the hosts files to block traffic to download/update servers or redirect the traffic to arbitrary servers under their control.
@rabbitstack rabbitstack force-pushed the suspicious-access-to-hosts-file branch from b1ed156 to aaa16ce Compare April 11, 2025 15:54
@rabbitstack rabbitstack merged commit 6659103 into master Apr 12, 2025
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@rabbitstack rabbitstack deleted the suspicious-access-to-hosts-file branch April 12, 2025 12:44
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