detecting-service-account-abuse

Detect abuse of service accounts by hunting for anomalous interactive logons, privilege escalation, and lateral movement using EDR/SIEM telemetry (CrowdStrike Falcon, Microsoft Defender, Splunk, Elastic Security, Sysmon, Velociraptor) and Sigma detection rules. Use when hunting for service-account misuse or investigating a service account performing unexpected interactive logons.