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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 4: Cyber Threat Intelligence and Ransomware

Cyber threat intelligence is a very important part of incident response. After reading the previous chapter, you should be well informed about the current threat landscape and techniques leveraged by threat actors. You should know to perform your analysis fast and move to the next stages of the incident response process.

We'll discuss various types of cyber threat intelligence: strategic, operational, and tactical. Of course, practice is preferable, so we'll base our discussion on an open source report so that, together, we can distinguish various parts of it from various types of intelligence.

So, in this chapter we'll look at each type of cyber threat intelligence through the ransomware prism:

  • The who and why – strategic cyber threat intelligence
  • The how and where – operational cyber threat intelligence
  • The what – tactical cyber threat intelligence