A county SOC rewrites detections every time a ransomware encryptor hash changes. What Pyramid of Pain lesson should guide more durable civic detections?
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Short Explanation
Hashes are cheap Halloween costumes—the actor swaps them overnight. Technique-oriented detections chase the method, which sits higher on the Pyramid of Pain and lasts after the encryptor gets a new paint job.
Full Explanation
On the Pyramid of Pain, hashes and other atomic IoCs are trivial for an adversary to change, while techniques and tactics are costly to abandon. Durable civic detections should therefore target techniques rather than one procedure's hash. Hash-only rules sit at the easy-to-burn base of the pyramid, not the top, and per-department procedure signatures age out just as fast. Tactics persist; that stability is why technique-oriented content outlives a single encryptor sample.