Ransomware exposure reduction and early detection

1. 01

   Challenge

   Ransomware spreads through the weaknesses everyone knows about but nobody can list: clear-text credentials, exposed shares, unpatched systems.

2. 02

   What WireTrace sees

   Reconnaissance, lateral movement and file activity on unencrypted shares, plus exposed credentials and services.

3. 03

   What WireTrace understands

   One corroborated verdict from reconnaissance, lateral movement, mass file modification, ransomware extensions and ransom notes.

4. 04

   What WireTrace decides

   Exposure findings to fix before an attack, and a high-severity alert when the pattern appears.

5. 05

   Integration / action

   Alerts to the SIEM and on-call by webhook or email; blocklists for firewalls to pull.

6. 06

   Outcome

   Fewer ways in, and earlier warning when encryption starts.

Condition: File operations are visible on unencrypted SMB. SMB3-encrypted sessions expose no file operations.