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Ransomware Analysis

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This chapter focuses on the description and analysis of ransomware, which is an advanced type of malware that infects a computer and holds victim’s data hostage for a ransom, for example, encrypting the victim’s data until a ransom is paid to decrypt them. The objectives of this chapter are to:

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  1. Department of Physics and Computer Science, Faculty of Science, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    Xiaodong Lin

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Lin, X. (2018). Ransomware Analysis. In: Introductory Computer Forensics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00581-8_19

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