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

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Chapter 1: The History of Human-Operated Ransomware Attacks

Just like COVID-19, human-operated ransomware attacks became the second pandemic in 2020. Unfortunately, this trend keeps evolving nowadays. Despite the fact some threat actors announce their retirement, their places in the cybercrime business are quickly occupied by the younger generation.

Such attacks are discussed a lot nowadays; however, they emerged even before well-known ransomware outbreaks, such as WannaCry and NotPetya. Unlike those uncontrolled ransomware outbreaks, this time it's under the full control of various ransomware operators and their affiliates. Careful reconnaissance of compromised infrastructure, preparing it for final ransomware deployment, can potentially bring them millions of dollars in cryptocurrency.

Of course, there are multiple notable examples of ransomware strains used in human-operated attacks. In this chapter, we'll focus on the most important examples from a historic point of view, finishing on what's most common for today's threat landscape – ransomware-as-a-service programs.

We'll look at the following examples:

2016 – SamSam ransomware
2017 – BitPaymer ransomware
2018 – Ryuk ransomware
2019-present – ransomware-as-a-service programs

You're reading from Incident Response Techniques for Ransomware Attacks Understand modern ransomware attacks and build an incident response strategy to work through them

Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Chapter 1: The History of Human-Operated Ransomware Attacks

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