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How to audit Windows Task Scheduler for cyber-attack activity

Google announced two zero-days that impacted both the Chrome browser and Windows 7 operating system. Google released an update to Chrome to protect users from the issue, and Microsoft patched the Windows 7 zero-day with the March 12 updates. At this time the attack is only seen on Windows 7, and Google believes that Windows 10 is not vulnerable to the attack due to its sandbox technologies. In particular, you want to look for event 4698. You might not have logging enabled on. Windows 7 or Windows 10 may not have object logging enabled to see if new tasks are set.”]

Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3373498/how-to-audit-windows-task-scheduler-for-cyber-attack-activity.html

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