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

Operational cyber threat intelligence

Operational cyber threat intelligence helps to understand threat actors' capabilities, provides insights on their infrastructure, and, of course, tactics, techniques, and procedures. This type of intelligence allows us to understand the how and the where, so it's focused on Security Operation Center (SOC) analysts, incident responders, threat hunters, and so on.

As you may have already understood, the how allows defenders to collect information about various threat actors' tactics, techniques, and procedures, and make sure they can be easily detected and mitigated. The where allows the defender to use a proactive approach, as they become aware of where to look for various tactics, techniques, and procedures.

Let's continue with the analysis of the report on Hive ransomware from SentinelLabs and start focusing on the Technical analysis section.

When we are talking about tactics, techniques, and procedures, or simply...