Your EDR sees everything. Process launches, thread injections, DLL loads, filesystem writes. It has eyes inside the kernel — little hooks that fire before anything consequential happens, passing information up to the agent, letting it decide whether to block or alert.
Now imagine something reaches into that kernel and quietly removes the hooks. No crash. No blue screen. No alert. The EDR process is still running, the dashboard still shows healthy, but the inputs it depends on are just gone.
This is part of windows internals I've been exploring — understanding how systems actually behave under the hood, not just how tools interact with them.
That's not a Windows bug. That's a trust problem.
BYOVD doesn't exploit Windows — it exploits trust.
