Suspicious Important Scheduled Task Deleted or Disabled (via taskscheduler)

This rule detects when threat actors try to stop system services or processes by deleting or disabling their respective scheduled tasks to conduct data destructive activities

SigmahighWindowsv1
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Known false positives

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Detection content is published as a reviewed draft. Tune thresholds and exclusions against your own telemetry before enabling this rule for alerting.