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Incident Response for Windows

Incident Response for Windows

By : Tykushin, Ostrovskaya
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Incident Response for Windows

Incident Response for Windows

4.8 (9)
By: Tykushin, Ostrovskaya

Overview of this book

Cybersecurity incidents are becoming increasingly common and costly, making incident response a critical domain for organizations to understand and implement. This book enables you to effectively detect, respond to, and prevent cyberattacks on Windows-based systems by equipping you with the knowledge and tools needed to safeguard your organization's critical assets, in line with the current threat landscape. The book begins by introducing you to modern sophisticated cyberattacks, including threat actors, methods, and motivations. Then, the phases of efficient incident response are linked to the attack's life cycle using a unified cyber kill chain. As you advance, you'll explore various types of Windows-based platform endpoint forensic evidence and the arsenal necessary to gain full visibility of the Windows infrastructure. The concluding chapters discuss the best practices in the threat hunting process, along with proactive approaches that you can take to discover cybersecurity incidents before they reach their final stage. By the end of this book, you’ll have gained the skills necessary to run intelligence-driven incident response in a Windows environment, establishing a full-fledged incident response and management process, as well as proactive methodologies to enhance the cybersecurity posture of an enterprise environment.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
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Part 1: Understanding the Threat Landscape and Attack Life Cycle
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Part 2: Incident Response Procedures and Endpoint Forensic Evidence Collection
7
Part 3: Incident Analysis and Threat Hunting on Windows Systems
15
Part 4: Incident Investigation Management and Reporting

Impact

With that, we have reached the last stage of the attack. As mentioned in Chapter 1, the goals differ depending on the attacker. Low-maturity actors perform resource hijacking to mine cryptocurrency, ransomware actors seek data encryption for impact, some APTs prefer to destroy the data, inhibit system recovery, and cause a denial of service attack, and financially-motivated groups will attempt to transfer funds.

Resource hijacking is not limited to cryptocurrency mining. We have seen cases when intruders deployed the masscan tool to run account brute-force attacks on other public-facing servers with a published RDP by using a predefined credential dictionary. Financially motivated groups may also send thousands of emails to other victims to gain trust. We remember a campaign called Wave where the attacker successfully compromised an organization. They offered accounting services to others, then sent a malicious email to 100+ organizations threatening them with non-payment...

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