Registry Run Keys
Many organizations do not monitor for additions to the Windows Registry that could be used to trigger autostart execution on system boot or logon. This allows adversaries to launch programs that run at higher privileges and paves the way for more damaging activity. Learn how to detect and mitigate this activity to secure your network.
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Once adversaries have taken advantage of the Registry Run Keys technique, they can take a look around and elevate their privileges to gain more access and achieve persistence. Threat actors like FIN10 have been known to establish persistence by using the Registry option in PowerShell Empire to add a Run key.
It’s important to mitigate this activity and block potentially malicious software that may be executed through run key or upon startup.
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