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Ransomware is a type of malicious software that tampers the data of an organization or an individual. For this, the attacker threatens the victim to pay a big ransom amount against the data. They seek payments through digital currencies such as bitcoins. There are no perfect techniques to detect and block a ransomware attack. But, there are a lot of preventive techniques that help organizations to protect the data from ransom attacks. The existing methods are not providing all the security services such as availability. Even if there is an availability still cryptographic operations can be performed to change the form of content. This makes impossible for the user to retrieve the original information. To overcome this drawback, we propose a technique called Ransom Protect Algorithm. In this algorithm, we present a method of locking the file for preventing the ransom attack. Thereby, ensuring that no other process can access and perform an encryption operation on the locked file.
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Kumari, A., Bhuiyan, M.Z.A., Namdeo, J., Kanaujia, S., Amin, R., Vollala, S. (2019). Ransomware Attack Protection: A Cryptographic Approach. In: Wang, G., Feng, J., Bhuiyan, M., Lu, R. (eds) Security, Privacy, and Anonymity in Computation, Communication, and Storage. SpaCCS 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11611. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24907-6_2
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