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Research Days Poster: A Study On Ransomware And Possible Mitigations, Robin Singh, Jing-Chiou Liou
Research Days Poster: A Study On Ransomware And Possible Mitigations, Robin Singh, Jing-Chiou Liou
Center for Cybersecurity
Ransomware is a quite violent attack that has been persistent throughout the industry for so many years. This malware doesn’t only affect the regular computer users but it has been targeting the big organizations and businesses also. Ransomware (ransom software) is a subset of malware designed to restrict access to a system or data until a requested ransom amount from the attacker is satisfied [2].In this poster, we will go over our findings on ransomware spreads, its actions, exploited vulnerabilities and few mitigation to reduce the impact of infection.