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most citedDifferential Area Analysis for Ransomware Attack Detection within Mixed File Datasets

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cs.CR202229 cited

Comparison of Entropy Calculation Methods for Ransomware Encrypted File Identification

Simon R Davies, Richard Macfarlane, William J. Buchanan

Ransomware is a malicious class of software that utilises encryption to implement an attack on system availability. The target's data remains encrypted and is held captive by the a…

cs.CR202220 cited

NapierOne: A modern mixed file data set alternative to Govdocs1

Simon R Davies, Richard Macfarlane, William J Buchanan

It was found when reviewing the ransomware detection research literature that almost no proposal provided enough detail on how the test data set was created, or sufficient descript…

cs.CR202151 cited

Differential Area Analysis for Ransomware Attack Detection within Mixed File Datasets

Simon R Davies, Richard Macfarlane, William J Buchanan

The threat from ransomware continues to grow both in the number of affected victims as well as the cost incurred by the people and organisations impacted in a successful attack. In…

cs.CR202027 cited

Evaluation of Live Forensic Techniques in Ransomware Attack Mitigation

Simon R. Davies, Richard Macfarlane, William J. Buchanan

Memory was captured from a system infected by ransomware and its contents was examined using live forensic tools, with the intent of identifying the symmetric encryption keys being…

cs.CR20209 cited

Towards Identifying Human Actions, Intent, and Severity of APT Attacks Applying Deception Techniques -- An Experiment

Joel Chacon, Sean McKeown, Richard Macfarlane

Attacks by Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) have been shown to be difficult to detect using traditional signature- and anomaly-based intrusion detection approaches. Deception tec…

cs.CR2020

Wi-Fi Channel Saturation as a Mechanism to Improve Passive Capture of Bluetooth Through Channel Usage Restriction

Ian Lowe, William J Buchanan, Richard J Macfarlane +1

Bluetooth is a short-range wireless technology that provides audio and data links between personal smartphones and playback devices, such as speakers, headsets and car entertainmen…