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Respond to Ransomware
In this lab, you’ll practice performing incident response on an infected windows machine. When you’re finished, you’ll have the ability to triage ransomware on an infected windows machine.

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Getting Started in the Lab Environment
Here are the initial instructions and explanation of the lab environment. Read this while your environment is busy creating itself from nothing. Yes, this violates physics; we know. How fun!
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Ransomware Preparation
In this challenge you will prepare for effectively performing a cyber investigation following a ransomware attack.
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Triaging and Collecting Artifacts
In this challenge you will get experience doing the initial triage of a system that has been infected with malware.
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Identifying the Root Cause Using Forensic Analysis Techniques
In this challenge you will perform forensic analysis to identify the initial cause of the malware outbreak.
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Malware Eradication and Recovery of Systems
In this challenge you will remove the malware from the infected system, and return it to a normal state where it can safely be inserted back into the company network.
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Last Challenge
Welcome to the final challenge! This is your last chance to experiment in the environment. Clicking Finish Lab will end this little world that flittered into existence just for you.
What's a lab?
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