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Early detection of crypto-ransomware using pre-encryption detection algorithm

Journal of King Saud University: Computer and Information Sciences, 2022
Crypto ransomware is a type of malware that locks its victim’s file for ransom using an encryption algorithm. Its popularity has risen at an alarming rate among the cyber security community due to several successful worldwide attacks.
S.H. Kok, Azween Abdullah, NZ Jhanjhi
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Deep dive into ransomware threat hunting and intelligence at fog layer [PDF]

, 2018
Ransomware, a malware designed to encrypt data for ransom payments, is a potential threat to fog layer nodes as such nodes typically contain considerably amount of sensitive data.
Ahmadzadeh, M, Choo, KKR, Dehghantanha, A, Hashemi, M, Homayoun, S, Khayami, R, Newton, DE   +6 more
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CryptoKnight:generating and modelling compiled cryptographic primitives [PDF]

, 2018
Cryptovirological augmentations present an immediate, incomparable threat. Over the last decade, the substantial proliferation of crypto-ransomware has had widespread consequences for consumers and organisations alike.
Bellekens, Xavier, Hill, Gregory
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Retaliation against Ransomware in Cloud-Enabled PureOS System

Mathematics, 2023
Ransomware is malicious software that encrypts data before demanding payment to unlock them. The majority of ransomware variants use nearly identical command and control (C&C) servers but with minor upgrades.
Atef Ibrahim, Usman Tariq, Tariq Ahamed Ahanger, Bilal Tariq, Fayez Gebali   +4 more
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The Evolution of Embedding Metadata in Blockchain Transactions [PDF]

, 2018
The use of blockchains is growing every day, and their utility has greatly expanded from sending and receiving crypto-coins to smart-contracts and decentralized autonomous organizations.
Courtois, Nicolas, Faisal, Tooba, Serguieva, Antoaneta   +2 more
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Detecting Android Locker-Ransomware on Chinese Social Networks

IEEE Access, 2019
In recent years, an increasing amount of locker-ransomware has been posing a great threat to the Android platform as well as users' properties. Locker-ransomware blackmails victims for ransom by compulsorily locking the devices.
Dan Su, Jiqiang Liu, Xiaoyang Wang, Wei Wang   +3 more
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Open Repository for the Evaluation of Ransomware Detection Tools

IEEE Access, 2020
Crypto-ransomware is a type of malware that encrypts user files, deletes the original data, and asks for ransom to recover the hijacked documents. Several articles have presented detection techniques for this type of malware; these techniques are applied
Eduardo Berrueta, Daniel Morato, Eduardo Magana, Mikel Izal   +3 more
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Ransomware Detection and Classification Strategies

2022 IEEE International Black Sea Conference on Communications and Networking (BlackSeaCom), 2022
9 pages, 2 ...
Vehabovic, Aldin, Ghani, Nasir, Bou-Harb, Elias, Crichigno, Jorge, Yayimli, Aysegul   +4 more
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Enhancing File Entropy Analysis to Improve Machine Learning Detection Rate of Ransomware

IEEE Access, 2021
Cybersecurity is the biggest threat in the world. More and more people are used to storing personal data on a computer and transmitting it through the Internet. Cybersecurity will be an important issue that everyone continues to pay attention to.
Chia-Ming Hsu, Chia-Cheng Yang, Han-Hsuan Cheng, Paul E. Setiasabda, Jenq-Shiou Leu   +4 more
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Behaviour Based Ransomware Detection

EPiC Series in Computing, 2019
Ransomware is an ever-increasing threat in the world of cyber security targeting vulnerable users and companies, but what is lacking is an easier way to group, and devise practical and easy solutions which every day users can utilise.In this paper we look at the different characteristics of ransomware, and present preventative techniques to tackle ...
Christopher Chew, Vimal Kumar
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