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 11: Investigating Ransomware Deployment Techniques

The main goal of a human-operated ransomware attack is to encrypt as much data as possible. In many cases, the threat actors use various ransomware families obtained via ransomware-as-a-service programs or developed by some of the team members. At the same time, in some cases, they may use legitimate software for encryption. Common examples are BitLocker and DiskCryptor.

Usually, at this point, ransomware affiliates have full control over the compromised network: they collected information about the available hosts, obtained elevated credentials, removed backups, disabled security products, and placed backdoors for redundant access.

In this chapter, we'll look at the most common techniques leveraged by threat actors to deploy ransomware in enterprise networks, and also briefly discuss the process of ransomware analysis.

We'll cover the following topics:

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