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In the current era of interconnected cyberspace, there is an adverse effect of ransomware on individuals, startups, and large companies. Cybercriminals hold digital assets till the demand for payment is made. The success of ransomware…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Sharmila S P

Ransomware variants increasingly combine privilege escalation with sophisticated evasion strategies such as intermittent encryption, low-entropy encryption, and imitation attacks. Such powerful ransomware variants, privilege-escalated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Beom Heyn Kim , Seok Min Hong , Mohammad Mannan

File encrypting ransomware increasingly employs intermittent encryption techniques, encrypting only parts of files to evade classical detection methods. These strategies, exemplified by ransomware families like BlackCat, complicate file…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Ynes Ineza , Gerald Jackson , Prince Niyonkuru , Jaden Kevil , Abdul Serwadda

This research recasts ransomware detection using performance monitoring and statistical machine learning. The work builds a test environment with 41 input variables to label and compares three computing states: idle, encryption and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-28 David Noever , Samantha Miller Noever

Crypto-ransomware has caused an unprecedented scope of impact in recent years with an evolving level of sophistication. An extensive range of studies have been on defending against ransomware and reviewing the efficacy of various…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Wenjia Song , Sanjula Karanam , Ya Xiao , Jingyuan Qi , Nathan Dautenhahn , Na Meng , Elena Ferrari , Danfeng , Yao

The commoditization of Malware-as-a-Service (MaaS) allows criminals to obtain financial benefits at a low risk and with little technical background. One such popular product in the underground economy is ransomware. In ransomware attacks,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Javier Yuste , Sergio Pastrana

The threat from ransomware continues to grow both in the number of affected victims as well as the cost incurred by the people and organisations impacted in a successful attack. In the majority of cases, once a victim has been attacked…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Simon R Davies , Richard Macfarlane , William J Buchanan

Vicious assaults, malware, and various ransomware pose a cybersecurity threat, causing considerable damage to computer structures, servers, and mobile and web apps across various industries and businesses. These safety concerns are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Kavitha Kunku , ANK Zaman , Kaushik Roy

Researchers have proposed a wide range of ransomware detection and analysis schemes. However, most of these efforts have focused on older families targeting Windows 7/8 systems. Hence there is a critical need to develop efficient solutions…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Aldin Vehabovic , Hadi Zanddizari , Nasir Ghani , Farooq Shaikh , Elias Bou-Harb , Morteza Safaei Pour , Jorge Crichigno

The rise of ransomware attacks has necessitated the development of effective strategies for identifying and mitigating these threats. This research investigates the utilization of a feature selection algorithm for distinguishing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Mike Nkongolo

Ransomware remains a critical threat to cybersecurity, yet publicly available datasets for training machine learning-based ransomware detection models are scarce and often have limited sample size, diversity, and reproducibility. In this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Faithful Chiagoziem Onwuegbuche , Adelodun Olaoluwa , Anca Delia Jurcut , Liliana Pasquale

Encrypted behavioral patterns provide a unique avenue for classifying complex digital threats without reliance on explicit feature extraction, enabling detection frameworks to remain effective even when conventional static and behavioral…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Barnaby Fortescue , Edmund Hawksmoor , Alistair Wetherington , Frederick Marlowe , Kevin Pekepok

Malware detection is an ever-present challenge for all organizational gatekeepers, who must maintain high detection rates while minimizing interruptions to the organization's workflow. To improve detection rates, organizations often deploy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Yoni Birman , Shaked Hindi , Gilad Katz , Asaf Shabtai

With the recent growth in the number of malicious activities on the internet, cybersecurity research has seen a boost in the past few years. However, as certain variants of malware can provide highly lucrative opportunities for bad actors,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Amir Atapour-Abarghouei , Stephen Bonner , Andrew Stephen McGough

Ransomware impact different organizations for years, it causes huge monetary, reputation loss and operation impact. Other than typical data encryption by ransomware, attackers can request ransom from the victim organizations via data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Anthony Cheuk Tung Lai , Ping Fan Ke , Alan Ho

Ransomware has emerged as one of the major global threats in recent days. The alarming increasing rate of ransomware attacks and new ransomware variants intrigue the researchers in this domain to constantly examine the distinguishing traits…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Rawshan Ara Mowri , Madhuri Siddula , Kaushik Roy

Ransomware attacks are increasing at an alarming rate, leading to large financial losses, unrecoverable encrypted data, data leakage, and privacy concerns. The prompt detection of ransomware attacks is required to minimize further damage,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Jurijs Nazarovs , Jack W. Stokes , Melissa Turcotte , Justin Carroll , Itai Grady

A survey of machine learning techniques trained to detect ransomware is presented. This work builds upon the efforts of Taylor et al. in using sensor-based methods that utilize data collected from built-in instruments like CPU power and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Erik Larsen , David Noever , Korey MacVittie

In the banking industry, ransomware is a well-known threat, but since the beginning of 2022, cryptojacking, an emerging threat is posing a considerable challenge to the banking industry. Ransomware has variants, and the attackers keep…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Naresh Kshetri , Mir Mehedi Rahman , Sayed Abu Sayeed , Irin Sultana

Newly emerging variants of ransomware pose an ever-growing threat to computer systems governing every aspect of modern life through the handling and analysis of big data. While various recent security-based approaches have focused on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Amir Atapour-Abarghouei , Stephen Bonner , Andrew Stephen McGough