Chapter 12: The Unified Ransomware Kill Chain
Throughout this book, you have learned a lot about how exactly threat actors operate during various stages of a human-operated ransomware attack life cycle.
We have learned how to collect and produce cyber threat intelligence, as well as how to collect data from various sources and perform digital forensic analysis in order to reconstruct various stages of ransomware attacks during incident response engagements.
In this chapter, we will summarize everything we have learned by looking at various kill chains through the lens of human-operated ransomware attacks and introduce the Unified Ransomware Kill Chain.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Cyber Kill Chain®
- MITRE ATT&CK®
- The Unified Kill Chain
- The Unified Ransomware Kill Chain