TY - BOOK AU - Vidhya K V (93617036) TI - Ransomware detection using machine learning KW - RANSOMWARE KW - MALWARE DETECTION KW - MACHINE LEARNING N1 - Ransomware is a kind of malware that installs covertly on a victim's computer or smartphone, executes a cryptovirology attack and demands a ransom payment to restore it. Ransomwares have been the most serious threat in 2016, and this situation continues to worsen. Because of high reward for Ransomwares, more and more Ransomware families appear, and it makes us more dicult to detect them. There are dierent signatures or behaviors among dierent families (i.e. Locky, Cerber, Cryptowall to name a few) or versions (i.e. CryptXXX2.0, CryptXXX3.0) of Ransomwares. It will be wonderful if there is a way that can detect potential Ransomware threats. This paper is based on machine learning technique to detect Ransomwares. The rst part introduces how to label the data with dierent behaviors and what features that have chosen. Afterward, present the model for detecting various Ransomware and prevent them from encrypting victim's data. Experimental evaluation demonstrates that this model can detect the latest Ransomware ER -