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 actors

As you will have understood already, this book is devoted to human-operated ransomware attacks. So, the threat actors we are dealing with are humans, and humans tend to communicate and share. One of the most common media used for such sharing is underground forums.

In this section, we'll look at some forum posts, collected by the Group-IB Threat Intelligence and Attribution platform.

The first post we'll look at is created by a threat actor with the nickname FishEye, who is known to be affiliated with REvil, LockBit, and some other ransomware strains. You can see it here:

Figure 6.5 – A post by FishEye

In this post, the threat actor shows their interest in obtaining a working exploit for a vulnerability in the SonicWall VPN. The threat actor points out the fact that Conti ransomware affiliates already have it and use it in their campaigns.

Most likely, the threat actor is writing about a vulnerability in SonicWall Secure...

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