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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Gaining initial access

Gaining initial access to the target network is a vital part of any intrusion, and ransomware attacks are not an exception.

Since various threat actors are involved in human-operated ransomware attacks, we, as incident responders, can face almost any tactic during our engagements.

Still, one of the most common tactics that's used by ransomware affiliates is abusing external remote services, such as Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), so it's going to be our starting point.

External remote services (T1133)

Using external remote services to obtain initial access is extremely common. For example, according to Group-IB's Ransomware Uncovered 2020/21 report, more than 50% of all human-operated ransomware attacks started from compromising a public-facing RDP server. The COVID-19 pandemic made it even worse; many companies required workplaces for remote personnel, which gave rise to even more poorly secured servers emerging on the world map.

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