Detection and Prevention of Ransomware Attacks using AES and RSA Algorithms

K. Raja

doi:https://doi.org/10.59232/DST-V1I1P101

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Volume 1 | Issue 1 | Year 2022 | Article Id: DST-V1I1P101 DOI: https://doi.org/10.59232/DST-V1I1P101

Detection and Prevention of Ransomware Attacks using AES and RSA Algorithms

K. Raja

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30 Mar 2022	13 Jun 2022	21 Jun 2022	07 Jul 2022

Citation

K. Raja. “Detection and Prevention of Ransomware Attacks using AES and RSA Algorithms.” DS Journal of Digital Science and Technology, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 1-9, 2022.

Abstract

At the moment network security is the vital role for all the administrations and also for the government offices. Ransomware attack is one of the most widespreadattacker in grid or network environment and increasing the every year very heavily. This ransomware attack is the blackmail based attack and it locks the victim users of source of content and demands the money to release. Over the last rare years many number of high profile ransomware attackers are observing here. in this paper we proposed the detection and prevention technique using advanced encryption standard algorithm from Ransomware attack. It is very difficult to recover the information which is attacked using cryptographic based approaches. It will show to reduce the network traffic and increases the efficiency whenever compare to proposed approaches.

Keywords

Ransomware attacks, Detection, Prevention, AES and RSA Cryptographic algorithms

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