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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Containment, eradication, and recovery

Once you have a good understanding of the attack you are dealing with, it's time to apply some containment measures.

The most common thing you can do is to block connections to the command and control servers. Without this, the threat actors can hardly do any harm to the network – of course, if they didn't deploy some scheduled tasks, for example, which'll run another backdoor with another command and control server.

So, it may be a good idea to isolate the whole network from the internet. But, of course, it depends on the stage of the attack life cycle. If you managed to detect it at an early stage, isolating the whole network may not really be a good idea, but if the threat actors spent a month inside, well, why not!

Another thing many ransomware affiliates commonly use is legitimate remote access applications. Here are some examples commonly seen during ransomware incident response engagements:

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