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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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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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MITRE ATT&CK®

ATT&CK is a globally accessible knowledge base of adversary strategies and procedures based on real-world observations, developed and maintained by the MITRE Corporation with the help of the global cybersecurity community.

We have already used this framework throughout this book, but I still recommend reading the following white paper, MITRE ATT&CK®: Design and Philosophy (https://attack.mitre.org/docs/ATTACK_Design_and_Philosophy_March_2020.pdf).

There are 14 adversary tactics described in MITRE ATT&CK®:

Reconnaissance
Resource development
Initial access
Execution
Persistence
Privilege escalation
Defense evasion
Credential access
Discovery
Lateral movement
Collection
Command and control
Exfiltration
Impact

Let's look at each tactic separately.

Reconnaissance

The adversary collects information about the target. As discussed previously, threat actors may use...

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