Suspicious Removal of Volume Shadow Copies through WMI with PowerShell - PS Script (via ps_script)

This rule detects deletion of Windows Volume Shadow Copies with PowerShell code and Get-WMIObject. This method is used by numerous ransomware families such as Sodinokibi/REvil

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