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Incident Response Techniques for Ransomware Attacks
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Incident Response Techniques for Ransomware Attacks

by Oleg Skulkin
April 2022
Beginner to intermediate
228 pages
4h 34m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Incident Response Techniques for Ransomware Attacks

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 ...

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ISBN: 9781803240442