The Defender’s Guide to Windows Services

It’s dangerous to find malicious services alone! Take this!

Authors: Luke Paine & Jonathan Johnson

Introduction

This is the second installment of the Defender’s Guide series. In keeping with the theme, we are discussing Windows Services, the underlying technology, common attack vectors, and methods of securing/monitoring them. Services are an important part of the Windows operating system, allowing the control and configuration of long-running processes essential to keeping the OS functional. This also allows services to be a common vector …

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