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Excessive Usage of SC Service Utility

Detection of anomalous usage of sc.exe, often abused by ransomware and malware to manipulate services for privilege escalation or disabling security measures.

Windows Observed in multiple ransomware families +1 endpoint sc.exe service_control privilege_escalation defense_evasion ransomware
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