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

16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 6: Collecting Ransomware-Related Cyber Threat Intelligence

As you've learned from the previous chapter, ransomware affiliates may use a wide variety of tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), so knowing what exactly they are using in the attack you are responding to seems quite a good idea. Some of these tactics and techniques might be for short games, while others may be for long-term positions—it really depends upon the end goal of the threat actor.

Usually, the first thing you learn starting an incident response (IR) engagement is the ransomware strain used by threat actors. As many ransomware strains are distributed under a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) model, various affiliates may have various approaches to the attack life cycle, so their TTPs may vary as well.

Taking this fact into consideration, it's a very good idea to have proper cyber threat intelligence (CTI) to aid your engagement. Of course, commercial CTI platforms are of great help...

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