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Incident Response Techniques for Ransomware Attacks

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803240442
Length 228 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Oleg Skulkin Oleg Skulkin
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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

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There are thousands of incident responders worldwide, and of course, some of them like to share their findings from IR engagements. We already looked at some threat research reports, but it usually takes quite a lot of time to create one. Therefore, responders and researchers often use other media to share their findings in a short form. A very popular media platform for such sharing is Twitter.

If you are dealing with a human-operated ransomware attack and you already identified the strain, you may find quite a lot of information on the threat actors, including TTPs. Understanding the threat actor is critical. Usually, certain ransomware affiliates use specific tools and processes during certain stages of the attack life cycle.

Let's start with RagnarLocker ransomware and have a look at the following tweet from Peter Mackenzie, Director of Incident Response at Sophos (https://twitter.com/AltShiftPrtScn/status/1403707430765273095):

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