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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
5
Section 2: Know Your Adversary: How Ransomware Gangs Operate
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Section 3: Practical Incident Response

Summary

Double-extortion has become an extremely popular tactic among ransomware gangs. Sensitive data exfiltrated from hundreds of organizations is posted online every year. So, incident responders need to be well aware of the techniques and tools commonly used by ransomware affiliates to solve this task, as well as forensic artifacts, enabling the ability to uncover such activities. We really need to understand threat actors and how they carry out their business.

In this chapter, we have looked at common approaches leveraged by threat actors to collect and exfiltrate data from a compromised network and learned which forensic artifacts can be used to uncover related traces.

In the next chapter, we'll dive into how ransomware affiliates achieve their final goal – deploying ransomware.