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Dead-Man's Switch

Also: wipe trigger

Malware logic that does something destructive if the attacker loses access, for example if a stolen token is revoked.

In more detail

It punishes the normal first reaction to an incident. If a payload can wipe a machine when its token is revoked, the safe order is to remove the persistence first and rotate credentials second.

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