Ransomware and Cyber Extortion: Response and Prevention

Index

A

accounts, priming, 80

action plan, creating, 106

actionable intelligence, 139

active notification, 87

actors, incident response, 94–95

adversary(ies), 6, 19, 151

amateur, 143

business mindset, 164–165

communication content analysis, 142–143

decreasing their revenue, 273–274

decryption tools, 230

identification techniques, 140–143

increasing risk for, 272–273

initial response, 178–179

masquerading, 141

persistence, 74

pressure tactics, 173–175

reducing leverage, 271–272

tactics, techniques and procedures, 146

affiliates

protections, 52–53

ransomware, 40

recruitment methods, 52

AIDS Information Diskette, 28–29

Akamai, 125

algorithm, 32, 35

antianalysis, 47

antivirus, 77–78, 175, 215

appraisal, 76–77

asymmetric encryption, 30, 32–33,