Execution Guardrails: Mutual Exclusion

ID Name
ATAGS-T1093.001 Environmental Keying
ATAGS-T1093.002 Mutual Exclusion

Threat Actors may constrain execution or actions based on the presence of a mutex associated with malware. A mutex is a locking mechanism used to synchronize access to a resource. Only one thread or process can acquire a mutex at a given time.

ID: ATAGS-T1093.002
Sub-technique of:  ATAGS-T1093
Tactic: Defense Evasion
Targeted Components: Software
Responsibility: Provider
Created: 18 April 2026
Last Modified: 18 April 2026

Mitigations

This type of attack technique cannot be easily mitigated with preventive controls since it is based on the abuse of system features.