Ransomware: Recent advances, analysis, challenges and future research directions

C Beaman, A Barkworth, TD Akande, S Hakak… - Computers & …, 2021 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic has witnessed a huge surge in the number of ransomware attacks.
Different institutions such as healthcare, financial, and government have been targeted …

A survey on ransomware: Evolution, taxonomy, and defense solutions

H Oz, A Aris, A Levi, AS Uluagac - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2022 - dl.acm.org
In recent years, ransomware has been one of the most notorious malware targeting end-
users, governments, and business organizations. It has become a very profitable business …

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 …

Rwguard: A real-time detection system against cryptographic ransomware

S Mehnaz, A Mudgerikar, E Bertino - International Symposium on …, 2018 - Springer
Ransomware has recently (re) emerged as a popular malware that targets a wide range of
victims-from individual users to corporate ones for monetary gain. Our key observation on …

[HTML][HTML] RanSAP: An open dataset of ransomware storage access patterns for training machine learning models

M Hirano, R Hodota, R Kobayashi - Forensic Science International: Digital …, 2022 - Elsevier
Ransomware, the malicious software that encrypts user files to demand a ransom payment,
is one of the most common and persistent threats. Cyber-criminals create new ransomware …

[HTML][HTML] Applying staged event-driven access control to combat ransomware

T McIntosh, ASM Kayes, YPP Chen, A Ng… - Computers & Security, 2023 - Elsevier
The advancement of modern Operating Systems (OSs), and the popularity of personal
computing devices with Internet connectivity, have facilitated the proliferation of ransomware …

On the effectiveness of system API-related information for Android ransomware detection

M Scalas, D Maiorca, F Mercaldo, CA Visaggio… - Computers & …, 2019 - Elsevier
Ransomware constitutes a significant threat to the Android operating system. It can either
lock or encrypt the target devices, and victims are forced to pay ransoms to restore their data …

SwiftR: Cross-platform ransomware fingerprinting using hierarchical neural networks on hybrid features

EMB Karbab, M Debbabi, A Derhab - Expert Systems with Applications, 2023 - Elsevier
Ransomware has been largely exploited by cybercriminals to target individuals and
organizations. In response to the increasing number and magnitude of ransomware attacks …

{RøB}: Ransomware over Modern Web Browsers

H Oz, A Aris, A Acar, GS Tuncay, L Babun… - 32nd USENIX Security …, 2023 - usenix.org
File System Access (FSA) API enables web applications to interact with files on the users'
local devices. Even though it can be used to develop rich web applications, it greatly …

RansomSpector: An introspection-based approach to detect crypto ransomware

F Tang, B Ma, J Li, F Zhang, J Su, J Ma - Computers & Security, 2020 - Elsevier
Crypto ransomware encrypts user files and then extorts a ransom for decryption, thus it
brings a big threat to users. To address this problem, we propose RansomSpector, an …