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Sarah reached for her phone to call the CISO. Her hand was shaking.

Her stomach dropped.

She slammed the incident response playbook open. "Containment first." windows memory scan

Her containment commands finished. The network segment went dark. Karen's machine disconnected. The immediate threat was boxed.

The command and control server. Live, right now. Whoever was on the other end of that connection was probably scrolling through Karen's network shares, looking for the HR salary spreadsheet or the CFO's email archive. Sarah reached for her phone to call the CISO

A second anomaly bloomed.

Her hands went cold. Process hollowing was an act of digital ventriloquism. A legitimate Windows process—svchost, the trusted workhorse—had been created, paused, and its internal code stripped out like the meat from an eggshell. Then, the attacker's malicious code was injected into the hollow shell. When it resumed, Task Manager saw "svchost.exe" running happily. But inside, it was a stranger wearing its face. She slammed the incident response playbook open

That wasn't possible.