Suspicious Disabling of Windows Hypervisor Enforced Code Integrity (via registry_set)

This rule detects changes to the HypervisorEnforcedCodeIntegrity registry key and the "Enabled" value being set to 0 to disable the Hypervisor Enforced Code Integrity feature. This enables an adversary to load unsigned and untrusted code to be run in the kernel

SigmahighWindowsv1
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