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Title:
A note on machine learning applied in ransomware detection
Authors: Manuela Horduna, Simona-Maria Lăzărescu, Emil Simion
Abstract:Ransomware is a malware that employs encryption to hold a victim’s data, causing irreparable loss and monetary incentives to individuals or business organizations.
The occurrence of ransomware attacks has been increasing significantly and as the attackers are investing more creativity and inventiveness into their threats, the struggle of fighting against ill-themed activities has become more difficult and even time and energy-draining.
Therefore, recent researches try to shed some light on combining machine learning with defense mechanisms for detecting this type of malware.
Machine learning allows anti-ransomware systems to become more accurate at predicting outcomes or behaviors of the attacks and is vastly used in the advanced research of cybersecurity.
In this paper we analyze how machine learning can improve malware recognition in order to stand against critical security issues, giving a brief, yet comprehensive overview of this thriving topic in order to facilitate future research. We also briefly present the most important events of 2022 in terms of ransomware attacks, providing details about the ransoms demanded.
ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/045
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