Payouts King Ransomware AV/EDR Process Termination via Direct Syscalls

Ibrahim Saud@tektrix

•updated Jun 30, 2026•0•0•0

Detects unauthorized attempts to terminate security-related processes using direct syscalls (ZwTerminateProcess). The rule monitors for processes attempting to access AV/EDR security products with high-level access rights (0x0001 or 0x1fffff) while excluding authorized security processes themselves.