Microsoft Malware Protection Engine Crash Detected via WER
This rule detects a suspicious crash of the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine (MsMpEng.exe), specifically when the mpengine.dll module is involved. Such crashes can indicate an attempt to exploit vulnerabilities in the antivirus software to bypass security defenses or disable the tool. The detection relies on Windows Error Reporting (EventID 1001) logs containing specific process and module names.
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