Ransomware Attacks Detection Methodology to Protect IoT-Enabled Critical Infrastructures
Amit Kumar Mishra, Mohammad S. Obaidat, Harshit Bhajpai, Pranjal Trivedi, Mohammad Wazid, Devesh Pratap Singh, Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, Balqies Sadoun · 2023
Critical infrastructure is a collection of physical and cyber systems, which are essentially required to support the day-to-day operations of our daily life. In the critical infrastructure, the computing systems (i.e., Internet of Things (loT) devices) communicate through the Internet. Therefore, most of the time, critical infrastructures are targeted by hackers by launching some cyber-attack, i.e., ransomware. Hence we require some security mechanisms to protect the data and systems of critical infrastructures. This paper proposes a scheme for the detection, analysis and mitigation of ransomware attacks to protect Internet of Things (loT)-enabled critical infrastructure (in short, RADM-ICI). We also practically demonstrated RADM-ICI and computed essential performance parameters, i.e., accuracy and F1-score under different machine learning models. The conducted security analysis of RADM-ICI proved its excellent security for the ransom ware attacks. During the performance comparison of the proposed RADM-ICI and other similar competing existing schemes, it has been observed that the proposed RADM-ICI achieved better accuracy than the other existing competing schemes.