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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

Throughout this book, you've learned a lot about modern human-operated ransomware attacks. Now you can find and monitor various cyber threat intelligence sources.

You clearly understand the ransomware attack life cycle and can use various kill chains, including the Unified Ransomware Kill Chain, to reconstruct such attacks, and you know the most common forensic artifacts, which may help you to solve this task.

I hope this book will help you in your current or future incident response engagements, as well as helping you better understand the current threat landscape related to human-operated ransomware attacks.

One other important note; you shouldn't just focus on default forensic artifacts described in this book as some environments may have quite useful third-party sources, such as SIEMs and EDEs. Use as much data as possible – this will allow you to reconstruct the attack in as much detail as possible and build proper protection to save your (or...