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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

Modern human-operated ransomware attacks are not only about data encryption. To deploy ransomware enterprise-wide, the threat actors must walk a long way from the initial access process to data exfiltration, so the cyber security team usually has a lot of detection opportunities. At the same time, as incident responders, we must be well aware of the current tactics, techniques, and procedures that are being leveraged by ransomware affiliates so that we can respond to such attacks quickly and efficiently.

As TTPs may change with time, it's crucial for incident responders and other security personnel to have access to or be able to collect, process, and produce actionable ransomware-related cyber threat intelligence.

In the next chapter, we'll look at various open sources that can be used for cyber threat intelligence collection.