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

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Post-exploitation

It can be noted and observed that gaining network access isn't the entire end game. In many cases, the threat actors still don't know much about the network, and may have access to accounts with limited privileges, so they can't disable security controls and move laterally to start achieving their goals, such as data exfiltration and ransomware deployment.

Of course, post-exploitation steps depend on the type of access. If the threat actors have VPN access, for example, they may want to scan the network for vulnerabilities, which may enable lateral movement for them.

You may be really surprised, but the notorious EternalBlue (CVE-2017-0144) is still extremely common for many enterprise networks, even if we are talking about really big enterprises.

Another very common vulnerability exploited by various ransomware operators is Zerologon (CVE-2020-1472). It allows the attackers to obtain access to the domain controller with a few clicks!

Those...

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