Ransomware mitigation in the modern era: A comprehensive review, research challenges, and future directions

T McIntosh, ASM Kayes, YPP Chen, A Ng… - ACM Computing …, 2021‏ - dl.acm.org
Although ransomware has been around since the early days of personal computers, its
sophistication and aggression have increased substantially over the years. Ransomware, as …

Securing the Industrial Internet of Things against ransomware attacks: A comprehensive analysis of the emerging threat landscape and detection mechanisms

M Al-Hawawreh, M Alazab, MA Ferrag… - Journal of Network and …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Due to the complexity and diversity of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) systems, which
include heterogeneous devices, legacy and new connectivity protocols and systems, and …

Ransomware threat success factors, taxonomy, and countermeasures: A survey and research directions

BAS Al-Rimy, MA Maarof, SZM Shaid - Computers & Security, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Ransomware is a malware category that exploits security mechanisms such as cryptography
in order to hijack user files and related resources and demands money in exchange for the …

[HTML][HTML] The rise of crypto-ransomware in a changing cybercrime landscape: Taxonomising countermeasures

LY Connolly, DS Wall - Computers & Security, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Year in and year out the increasing adaptivity of offenders has maintained ransomware's
position as a major cybersecurity threat. The cybersecurity industry has responded with a …

The rise of ransomware: Forensic analysis for windows based ransomware attacks

I Kara, M Aydos - Expert Systems with Applications, 2022‏ - Elsevier
While information technologies grow and propagate worldwide, malwares have modified
and risen their efficiency towards information system. Recently, the attackers have started to …

A survey on windows-based ransomware taxonomy and detection mechanisms

R Moussaileb, N Cuppens, JL Lanet… - ACM Computing Surveys …, 2021‏ - dl.acm.org
Ransomware remains an alarming threat in the 21st century. It has evolved from being a
simple scare tactic into a complex malware capable of evasion. Formerly, end-users were …

[HTML][HTML] A study on the evolution of ransomware detection using machine learning and deep learning techniques

DW Fernando, N Komninos, T Chen - IoT, 2020‏ - mdpi.com
This survey investigates the contributions of research into the detection of ransomware
malware using machine learning and deep learning algorithms. The main motivations for …

[PDF][PDF] Ransomware: a survey and trends

S Aurangzeb, M Aleem, MA Iqbal, MA Islam - J. Inf. Assur. Secur, 2017‏ - researchgate.net
Ransomware are a recent scareware, a threat that is increasing gradually for last couple of
years. Usually it encrypts users's files or steal/delete important information and holds the …

A pseudo feedback-based annotated TF-IDF technique for dynamic crypto-ransomware pre-encryption boundary delineation and features extraction

BAS Al-Rimy, MA Maarof, M Alazab, F Alsolami… - IEEE …, 2020‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The cryptography employed against user files makes the effect of crypto-ransomware attacks
irreversible even after detection and removal. Thus, detecting such attacks early, ie during …

Ransomware prediction using supervised learning algorithms

U Adamu, I Awan - … Conference on Future Internet of Things …, 2019‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Malware has become most popular attack vector, among which ransomware remained a
threat to individuals and organisations. Ransomware main objectives is extortion by …