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Defence evasion
Something tried to hide, disable logging, or look like software it is not. Treat other alerts as unreliable from this point.
Treat every other alert as unreliable from this point. Someone chose to be harder to see, which means there is something to see.
What this does not establish
- What was hidden. That is the entire point of the technique.
- How long visibility has been degraded. Measure the gap, not the alert.
- Whether the rest of your tooling is still honest. Verify, do not assume.
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Establish exactly what was blinded, and when
- Log cleared, agent stopped, exclusion added — each hides something different.
- The gap's start time is your timeline anchor.
- Ask the console, not the host. The host may be the liar.
- Start the timeline now: every action, who took it, when.
- Export whatever logs remain, off-host, before rotation takes them too.