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Incident response playbooks

Use these field-oriented playbooks to coordinate SOC, IR, legal, and leadership teams during high-stakes malware incidents. They are designed for rapid decision-making and evidence integrity.

Ransomware Active Detonation

Critical
  1. 1.Isolate impacted assets and disable privileged shared credentials.
  2. 2.Preserve memory and disk snapshots before mass reboot or restoration actions.
  3. 3.Protect backup repositories and verify immutability controls.
  4. 4.Initiate legal and cyber-insurance notification workflows with evidence timeline.

Web Skimmer / Magecart-Like Injection

High
  1. 1.Move payment endpoints to maintenance mode while preserving server and CDN logs.
  2. 2.Diff scripts and templates against trusted release artifacts.
  3. 3.Rotate secrets for payment APIs, admin panels, and deployment pipelines.
  4. 4.Publish targeted customer communication once exposure scope is validated.

Worm/Lateral Movement Outbreak

High
  1. 1.Segment suspicious network zones and enforce emergency ACL controls.
  2. 2.Disable removable-media propagation vectors and shared local admin accounts.
  3. 3.Push IOC-driven endpoint sweeps plus credential reset for high-privilege users.
  4. 4.Map reinfection loops before rejoining systems to production segments.

Escalation workflow

Use these playbooks for initial control, then open a scoped MalwareXpose project to transition from emergency containment into forensic analysis and remediation prioritization.