Most Important Detection 2026: LSASS Memory Access via Direct/Indirect Syscalls

Ibrahim Saud@tektrix

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Detects processes attempting to obtain high-privileged handles (e.g., VM_READ/ALL_ACCESS) to the lsass.exe process. Accessing lsass.exe is a common method for credential dumping, often used by malware or red-team tools to extract sensitive credentials from memory. This rule monitors process access events and ignores known benign or administrative processes that legitimately access LSASS.