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 …

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 …

Ransomware detection using machine learning: A survey

A Alraizza, A Algarni - Big Data and Cognitive Computing, 2023 - mdpi.com
Ransomware attacks pose significant security threats to personal and corporate data and
information. The owners of computer-based resources suffer from verification and privacy …

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 …

The age of ransomware: A survey on the evolution, taxonomy, and research directions

S Razaulla, C Fachkha, C Markarian… - IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The proliferation of ransomware has become a significant threat to cybersecurity in recent
years, causing significant financial, reputational, and operational damage to individuals and …

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 …

Systematic literature review and metadata analysis of ransomware attacks and detection mechanisms

AM Maigida, SM Abdulhamid, M Olalere… - Journal of Reliable …, 2019 - Springer
Ransomware is advanced and upgraded malicious software which comes in the forms of
Crypto or Locker, with the intention to attack and take control of basic infrastructures and …

[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 …

Detecting ransomware attacks using intelligent algorithms: Recent development and next direction from deep learning and big data perspectives

I Bello, H Chiroma, UA Abdullahi, AY Gital… - Journal of Ambient …, 2021 - Springer
Recently, cybercriminals have infiltrated different sectors of the human venture to launch
ransomware attacks against information technology infrastructure. They demand ransom …

A survey of crypto ransomware attack detection methodologies: an evolving outlook

A Alqahtani, FT Sheldon - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Recently, ransomware attacks have been among the major threats that target a wide range
of Internet and mobile users throughout the world, especially critical cyber physical systems …