You're reading from Incident Response Techniques for Ransomware Attacks Understand modern ransomware attacks and build an incident response strategy to work through them

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803240442

Length 228 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Cybersecurity

Author (1):

Oleg Skulkin

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Getting Started with a Modern Ransomware Attack

2. Chapter 1: The History of Human-Operated Ransomware Attacks FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: The Life Cycle of a Human-Operated Ransomware Attack

4. Chapter 3: The Incident Response Process

5. Section 2: Know Your Adversary: How Ransomware Gangs Operate

6. Chapter 4: Cyber Threat Intelligence and Ransomware

7. Chapter 5: Understanding Ransomware Affiliates' Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures

8. Chapter 6: Collecting Ransomware-Related Cyber Threat Intelligence

9. Section 3: Practical Incident Response

10. Chapter 7: Digital Forensic Artifacts and Their Main Sources

11. Chapter 8: Investigating Initial Access Techniques

12. Chapter 9: Investigating Post-Exploitation Techniques

13. Chapter 10: Investigating Data Exfiltration Techniques

14. Chapter 11: Investigating Ransomware Deployment Techniques

15. Chapter 12: The Unified Ransomware Kill Chain

16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 5: Understanding Ransomware Affiliates' Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures

We have already discussed various topics related to both ransomware itself and incident response. By now, you should have a good general understanding of how such attacks work and why having proper incident response is a must when you're dealing with human-operated ransomware.

But to be effective during your incident response engagements, having a general understanding of the attack's life cycle isn't enough as the threat actors usually use diverse tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) to complete their mission.

As you may already know, ransomware-as-a-service programs make this even worse as there can be a lot of affiliates engaged in the attacks. Even for the same ransomware strain, the affiliates' TTPs may be extremely different.

This chapter will help you dive into the details of how the threat actors involved in human-operated ransomware attacks behave at...

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