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

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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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Data exfiltration

Data exfiltration is sometimes referred to as data extrusion, data exportation, or data theft, and it's extremely popular among ransomware affiliates. Almost any threat actor involved in human-operated ransomware attacks has its own Dedicated Leak Site (DLS). They use such websites to publish information about successful attacks and even exfiltrated data if a company refuses to pay the ransom.

The amount of exfiltrated data may be very different. In some cases, it's just a few gigabytes, while in others it may be terabytes. Exfiltrated data may include credit card information, Social Security numbers (SSNs), Personal Identifiable Information (PII), Protected Health Information (PHI), and National Provider Identifiers (NPIs), but are not limited to company private information and proprietary information.

Here's an example of a DLS that belongs to the Conti ransomware:

Figure 2.7 – Conti ransomware DLS

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