A Past Examination and Future Expectation: Ransomware
Dhruv Garg, Abha Thakral, Tarun Nalwa, Tanupriya Choudhury · 2018
Ransomware is a malicious software which infects, locks or takes control of a system or threatens to publish its data or block access to it unless a ransom is paid. This paper discusses about the past ransomware attacks, how they increased in the past years and predicts future extends of Ransomware. Data collection on spam, loaders, remote desktop protocol explain about past ransomware attacks and the trend of these attacks. Our analysis shows that there has been a significant improvement in encryption techniques used by ransomware and that ransomware variants behave in a very similar manner, but use different payloads. Analyzing these, a future prediction of how ransomware and the demand of money will grow is given in this paper.