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

Concepts

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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Threat detection and analysis

These are the two most important stages of the incident response process. Why? If your detection and analysis fails, you will most likely find your or your client's infrastructure encrypted by some ransomware affiliates. Of course, it's not the case if your client detected the attack when he or she saw a ransom note on a computer screen. And yes, this is a very common example.

So, generally, you may face one of two scenarios: everything is already encrypted and you need to reconstruct the attack, or there is only a ransomware precursor, so it must be contained and remediated as fast as possible.

Usually, if you are dealing with impact, it's not really difficult to understand what ransomware strain you are dealing with – just look inside the ransom note.

Nowadays, many of them contain links to portals where victims can communicate with the threat actors:

Figure 3.1 – BlackMatter ransomware portal...

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