{"id":242875,"date":"2026-08-19T05:18:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T10:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/microsoft-starts-removing-wmic-tool-used-by-cybercriminals"},"modified":"2026-08-19T05:18:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T10:18:54","slug":"microsoft-starts-removing-wmic-tool-used-by-cybercriminals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/microsoft-starts-removing-wmic-tool-used-by-cybercriminals","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft starts removing WMIC tool used by cybercriminals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-starts-removing-wmic-tool-used-by-cybercriminals.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft announced that it removed the Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line (WMIC) tool from Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2, as well as from Windows 11 beta builds released this week.<\/p>\n<p>WMIC is a legacy built-in Windows command-line utility that helps interact with the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) system using text commands.<\/p>\n<p>This move is part of a process <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/microsoft\/microsoft-wmic-will-be-removed-after-windows-11-25h2-upgrade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">announced in September<\/a>, when the company said that WMIC will be removed after upgrading to Windows 11 25H2 and later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft announced that it removed the Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line (WMIC) tool from Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2, as well as from Windows 11 beta builds released this week. WMIC is a legacy built-in Windows command-line utility that helps interact with the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) system using text commands. This move is part of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}