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Windows Ransomware Detection and Protection

You're reading from  Windows Ransomware Detection and Protection

Product type Book
Published in Mar 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803246345
Pages 290 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Marius Sandbu Marius Sandbu
Profile icon Marius Sandbu
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters close

Preface 1. Part 1:Ransomware Basics
2. Chapter 1: Ransomware Attack Vectors and the Threat Landscape 3. Chapter 2: Building a Secure Foundation 4. Part 2:Protect and Detect
5. Chapter 3: Security Monitoring Using Microsoft Sentinel and Defender 6. Chapter 4: Ransomware Countermeasures – Windows Endpoints, Identity, and SaaS 7. Chapter 5: Ransomware Countermeasures – Microsoft Azure Workloads 8. Chapter 6: Ransomware Countermeasures – Networking and Zero-Trust Access 9. Chapter 7: Protecting Information Using Azure Information Protection and Data Protection 10. Part 3:Assume Breach
11. Chapter 8: Ransomware Forensics 12. Chapter 9: Monitoring the Threat Landscape 13. Chapter 10: Best Practices for Protecting Windows from Ransomware Attacks 14. Index 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

A manual approach

In some cases, we might not have the same level of visibility because it might be that we do not have these types of EDR products installed on our endpoints. This requires us to take a more manual approach to the process.

There are some main things that we need to inspect to try and find evidence:

  • The local file system and running memory
  • Event logs
  • Task Scheduler and BITS
  • Registry changes
  • Evidence from security products such as Microsoft Defender or third-party security tools

Hopefully, you have an idea about which user opened the attachment and whether the computer is still logged in with the user’s credentials so that you can get insight into whatever is running on the machine.

If the user has logged out or has stopped the machine, you should try and log on to the machine with a local administrator account if you have it; just make sure that the machine is not connected to the network.

There are a lot of places where...

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