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Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803240442

Length 228 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Cybersecurity

Author (1):

Oleg Skulkin

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Getting Started with a Modern Ransomware Attack

2. Chapter 1: The History of Human-Operated Ransomware Attacks FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: The Life Cycle of a Human-Operated Ransomware Attack

4. Chapter 3: The Incident Response Process

5. Section 2: Know Your Adversary: How Ransomware Gangs Operate

6. Chapter 4: Cyber Threat Intelligence and Ransomware

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

8. Chapter 6: Collecting Ransomware-Related Cyber Threat Intelligence

9. Section 3: Practical Incident Response

10. Chapter 7: Digital Forensic Artifacts and Their Main Sources

11. Chapter 8: Investigating Initial Access Techniques

12. Chapter 9: Investigating Post-Exploitation Techniques

13. Chapter 10: Investigating Data Exfiltration Techniques

14. Chapter 11: Investigating Ransomware Deployment Techniques

15. Chapter 12: The Unified Ransomware Kill Chain

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Initial attack vectors

Any attack starts from an initial access. It can be an access to the internal network via a VPN, a trojan delivered via spear phishing, a web shell deployed via exploitation of public-facing application, or even a supply-chain attack.

At the same time, the three most common initial attack vectors are RDP compromise, spear phishing, and exploitation of software vulnerabilities.

For example, here are some statistics on the most common ransomware attack vectors in Q2 2021 collected by Coveware (source: https://www.coveware.com/blog/2021/7/23/q2-ransom-payment-amounts-decline-as-ransomware-becomes-a-national-security-priority):

Figure 2.1 – The most common ransomware attack vectors according to Coveware

Let's look at each of them in greater detail, with examples, of course.

RDP compromise

For many years, RDP has remained the most common way for threat actors to access the target network. From Chapter 1, The History...

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