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- Title
Preventive Measures and Incident Response for Locky Ransomware.
- Authors
Prakash, Kulkarni Pooja; Nafis, Tabrez; Biswas, Sidhartha Sankar
- Abstract
In today's cyber world, humans connect with each other through some communication channels and digital devices. The use of Internet has been increased to such an extent that emails and online payments have become part of our life. As the increased use of Internet has spread good things, it has also spread the threat of cyber-crimes. The cyber criminals have been active finding vulnerabilities and are ever-ready to various attacks on victims. In this paper, we have tried to illuminate how a simple word document can compromise your system. It is nothing but a Ransomware. A Ransomware is the type of malware, which encrypts the data on the victim's system and then asks for the 'Ransom' in terms of money to decrypt the data to its original form. We have explicitly explained Locky Ransomware, its working methodology, encryption and prevention measures. This paper also deliberates on the computer forensics and email forensics and incident response for Locky Ransomware.
- Publication
International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science, 2017, Vol 8, Issue 5, p392
- ISSN
0976-5697
- Publication type
Academic Journal