Microsoft is finally pulling the plug on a decades-old Windows tool that administrators still use — and attackers have repeatedly abused.
The company has now removed Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line (WMIC) from Windows, completing a long-running deprecation process that has gradually pushed the utility out of the operating system.
Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 Insider Beta build confirms that WMIC is gone, although the underlying Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) system remains intact.
That makes the change more than a routine Windows cleanup. WMIC has been abused as a living-off-the-land binary (LOLBIN), giving malware…
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