Security News > 2023 > November > The 3 key stages of ransomware attacks and useful indicators of compromise

For SOC teams to be able to defend their organization against ransomware attacks, they need to have the right security toolset, but also an understanding of the three primary ransomware attack stages.

Instead, there are often many different indicators of compromise at different stages of the attack that seem benign when looked at individually.

It takes a lot of manual threat hunting and investigation effort for SOC teams to identify the early stages of a ransomware attack, let alone determine if the indicators they are seeing are related.

Model chaining different types of analytics together is an efficient way to catch minor indicators of compromise when it comes to ransomware because they gather context on the network in real-time, allowing SOC teams to identify anomalous behavior when it occurs.

Many successful ransomware attacks will not trip antivirus at all, so assembling an accurate picture of user behaviors and compiling the numerous indicators into a coherent timeline is vital.

While detecting ransomware attacks may be difficult for organizations, being able to identify all the subtle IoCs of a ransomware attack will help your organization understand in which stage the attack is and what you can do to stop it from progressing.

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https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2023/11/08/ransomware-attack-stages/