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- Title
Ransomware: A Survey and Trends.
- Authors
Aurangzeb, Sana; Aleem, Muhammad; Iqbal, Muhammad Azhar; Islam, Muhammad Arshad
- Abstract
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 decryption key until a ransom is paid by the victim, which is mostly in bitcoins due to their untraceable properties. In this work, we have conducted a survey to comprehend more than 40 papers that consists of Windows based ransomware families from last 4 years by creating a benchmark for evaluating ransomware attacking methodologies, payment methods. Thus, providing a way of instigating for other researchers to come out with some new solutions to control their growth and to avoid their attacks. This work would be the ultimate opportunity to expand and organize research efforts in future work by applying some early preventions and strategies to defeat these malicious software's.
- Publication
Journal of Information Assurance & Security, 2017, Vol 6, Issue 2, p48
- ISSN
1554-1010
- Publication type
Academic Journal