preventing and detecting ransomware(windows)
premnath R
Stuti Gupta
Hi Premnath,
Hope you are doing well today and thank you for using
wazuh.
The Wazuh SIEM and XDR platform uses several advanced malware
detection techniques for a wide range of malware,
including ransomware. Automatically identify and respond to
ransomware activities on your endpoints. Wazuh effectively prevents
ransomware attacks on protected endpoints by utilizing advanced detection
techniques. This approach enables the identification of both existing and
emerging threats. In order to avoid ransomware, it is recommended to
keep your systems updated and properly secured, back up your data on a regular
basis, and educate your end-users on security. The modules that help prevent and
detect ransomware are:
Security Configuration Assessment: Used to expose poorly configured systems. It runs configuration checks periodically, enforcing good practices by following standards such as CIS (Center of Internet Security).
· File integrity monitoring: Monitors changes to the file system and can be used to detect the presence of malicious files (see, for example, our integration with VirusTotal).
In this article, you will learn how Wazuh can help detect ransomware attacks in progress using the file integrity monitoring module.
BlackCat,
also known as ALPHV ransomware, this blog shows how to detect and respond
to BlackCat ransomware
on Windows endpoints using Wazuh.
CrossLock ransomware is a recent strain of ransomware developed using the
Go programming language, making it harder to reverse engineer. The ransomware
is capable of infecting several platforms, including Windows and UNIX-like
operating systems. In
this blog post, we use Wazuh to detect the malicious activities of CrossLock ransomware on
an infected Windows endpoint.
Hope this will help. Please feel free to contact us for more information/issues.
Regards,
Stuti Gupta