A Comprehensive Survey on Ransomware Attack: A Growing Havoc Cyberthreat

Abstract

Never in the history of humanity, people all over the world are subject to exaction on a huge scale as they are today. In the recent years, the usage of PCs and the Internet has exploded and, along with this huge increase, cybercrooks have come to feed this souk, aiming acquitted consumers with a wide range of per-ware. Most of these threats are meant unswervingly or meanderingly in receiving currency from victims. Today, the ransomware appears to be one of the most unpleasant per-ware categories of the time. Several works have been published in the field of information and Internet security, various pernicious attacks, and cryptography. The objective of this research paper is to present everything with regard to latest crypto-virus trend known as ransomware. The paper explains the history, the modus operandi as well as the architecture of ransomware attack.