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

16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 7: Digital Forensic Artifacts and Their Main Sources

We've already learned a lot about human-operated ransomware attacks in general – common tactics, techniques, and procedures leveraged by threat actors, as well as how to collect actionable cyber threat intelligence to speed up our investigations. So, it's high time we focused on the investigation itself.

If you are reading this book, I'm almost sure you've heard about Locard's exchange principle. Want a reminder? Well, alright – the principle is that the perpetrator of a crime will bring something into the crime scene and leave with something from it, and that both can be used as forensic evidence. Sounds familiar, right?

We can bring this principle to our real-life experience and observe that ransomware affiliates bring their tools, including the ransomware itself, and most likely exfiltrate a good amount of sensitive data.

We already know that the human-operated ransomware...

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