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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)
1
Section 1: Getting Started with a Modern Ransomware Attack
5
Section 2: Know Your Adversary: How Ransomware Gangs Operate
9
Section 3: Practical Incident Response

Summary

Ransomware affiliates use various techniques to distribute malicious code enterprise-wide. It depends on their skillset and the target, of course.

In this chapter, we've looked at the most common techniques for enterprise ransomware deployment observed in current human-operated attacks and learned how to use various forensic artifacts in order to detect and reconstruct them.

As we've already learned a lot about how to respond and detect various techniques employed by the threat actors during human-operated ransomware attacks, it's high time to sum it up and introduce the unified ransomware kill chain.

In the last chapter, we'll dive into various kill chains including the Cyber Kill Chain, the Unified Kill Chain, and MITRE ATT&CK, and build a new one with ransomware in focus – the Unified Ransomware Kill Chain.