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

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Preparation for an incident

Preparation is a vital part of the incident response process. And it's not only about the team. It's also about the impacted IT infrastructure. Just imagine you are responding to a ransomware-related incident, but all you have is a fully encrypted infrastructure with only default logging enabled and barely functioning antivirus software. Sounds surreal? But it's true for many incidents I have investigated during my career. Usually, companies don't think about their security until they are impacted.

Another important point is understanding that your infrastructure has lack of security controls and people. You don't need to wait for a real incident; in many cases, just a simple penetration testing assessment may show you are not well protected.

Some companies don't start to think about security even after a successful ransomware attack. And I have a good example – an Australian transportation and logistics company...

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