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Incident Response Techniques for Ransomware Attacks

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Incident Response Techniques for Ransomware Attacks

Overview of this book

Ransomware attacks have become the strongest and most persistent threat for many companies around the globe. Building an effective incident response plan to prevent a ransomware attack is crucial and may help you avoid heavy losses. Incident Response Techniques for Ransomware Attacks is designed to help you do just that. This book starts by discussing the history of ransomware, showing you how the threat landscape has changed over the years, while also covering the process of incident response in detail. You’ll then learn how to collect and produce ransomware-related cyber threat intelligence and look at threat actor tactics, techniques, and procedures. Next, the book focuses on various forensic artifacts in order to reconstruct each stage of a human-operated ransomware attack life cycle. In the concluding chapters, you’ll get to grips with various kill chains and discover a new one: the Unified Ransomware Kill Chain. By the end of this ransomware book, you’ll be equipped with the skills you need to build an incident response strategy for all ransomware attacks.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Section 1: Getting Started with a Modern Ransomware Attack
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Section 2: Know Your Adversary: How Ransomware Gangs Operate
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Section 3: Practical Incident Response

Other log sources

Let's finish this chapter by listing a few additional log sources that may play a critical role in your investigation:

  • Anti-virus software logs – As you already know, ransomware affiliates may use quite a few tools, so at least some of them will be detected by anti-virus software. These logs may provide you with a few good pivot points.
  • Firewall logs – These logs may provide you with great insights into network connections, including malicious connections. These are an extremely valuable source of forensic data, especially if they store data for a long time period, and you have at least some network indicators of compromise.
  • VPN logs – These are some of the common vectors of obtaining initial access to the network. So, they can also reveal some information about the threat actors' network infrastructure. GeoIP analysis may be quite useful. Is it common for your client's employees to connect to the network from Russia...