An Early Detection Mechanism for Ransomware: A Survey

Abstract

Ransomware could be a frame of blackmail in which digital records are rendered blocked off until a ransom payment is made. The frequency of ransomware attacks has risen at a disturbing rate in recent years and the cybercriminals that deal with ransomware also have increased their skills. If victim chooses to pay the ransom amount, then also the encryption can cause the irreversible damage to the files. Protection from the ransomware attacks is a difficult job as there is less knowledge about the undetected ransomware or newly detected ransomware and ever evolving variants. So early phase detection is the key to secure the files from the encryption phase and demand ransom. Hence in this paper several proposed studies of early detection solutions have been explored and future research challenges and directions are also be highlighted.