Suspicious LSASS Process Memory Dump Creation Through Taskmgr.EXE (via file_event)

This rule detects the creation of an "lsass.dmp" file by the taskmgr process. This suggests a manual dumping of the LSASS.exe process memory using Windows Task Manager.

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