Ransomware — The Pale Court Playbook | Nat20 InfoSec Ep. 13

Most threats move quietly. They slip in, take what they came for, and disappear. The best ones leave so little trace you might not know they were there for months. Not this one. This one wants you to know. Immediately. Loudly. On every screen in the building. Because this one gets paid by announcement. In this episode: What ransomware actually is — encryption, cryptocurrency, and the key they hold hostage Double extortion — why good backups stopped being enough Ransomware as a Service (RaaS) — the industry with developers, affiliates, negotiators, and customer support The full operation: initial access, lateral movement, data exfiltration, staging, detonation, negotiation The Pale Court — a name introduced, and a threat to remember Ransomware as necromancy: they kill your data, hold the resurrection scroll, and charge gold Defense: offline air-gapped backups, network segmentation, privileged access management, detection during dwell time ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Nat20 InfoSec is an information security education series built for people who think in terms of kingdoms, adventuring parties, and campaigns. Arc 2 — The Monster Manual — studies how attacks actually work: the patterns, the players, and the techniques. The series is structured like a player's handbook. Every episode is a lesson. Every concept is a rule of the realm. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #InfoSec #Cybersecurity #Ransomware #CybersecurityBasics #TTRPG #Nat20InfoSec