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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

Chapter 5: Understanding Ransomware Affiliates' Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures

We have already discussed various topics related to both ransomware itself and incident response. By now, you should have a good general understanding of how such attacks work and why having proper incident response is a must when you're dealing with human-operated ransomware.

But to be effective during your incident response engagements, having a general understanding of the attack's life cycle isn't enough as the threat actors usually use diverse tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) to complete their mission.

As you may already know, ransomware-as-a-service programs make this even worse as there can be a lot of affiliates engaged in the attacks. Even for the same ransomware strain, the affiliates' TTPs may be extremely different.

This chapter will help you dive into the details of how the threat actors involved in human-operated ransomware attacks behave at...