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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

Chapter 12: The Unified Ransomware Kill Chain

Throughout this book, you have learned a lot about how exactly threat actors operate during various stages of a human-operated ransomware attack life cycle.

We have learned how to collect and produce cyber threat intelligence, as well as how to collect data from various sources and perform digital forensic analysis in order to reconstruct various stages of ransomware attacks during incident response engagements.

In this chapter, we will summarize everything we have learned by looking at various kill chains through the lens of human-operated ransomware attacks and introduce the Unified Ransomware Kill Chain.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Cyber Kill Chain®
  • MITRE ATT&CK®
  • The Unified Kill Chain
  • The Unified Ransomware Kill Chain