ARYA’S RANFRAME: A COMPREHENSIVE FRAMEWORK FOR RANSOMWARE DEFENSE

Abstract

Ransomware is one of the most popular attacks that threaten victims by encrypting their personal confidential data. This article aims to provide a comprehensive examination of Ransomware attacks and their consequences for individuals, systems, and IT infrastructure. It also investigates the many forms of attack’s that are utilized as a prerequisite for Ransomware attacks. Investigating the processes utilized to prevent ransomware attacks from occurring before they enter the local area network. Discovery of ways for reducing the impact of ransomware attacks at a level of difficulty for the attacker. Based on the findings, a few recommendations and conclusions are given. The study's approach comprises acquiring information through surveys and interviews from various users, victims, and working professionals who are the study's primary stakeholders. It also covers research based on many research papers and articles that conduct ransomware research. The study examines ransomware attacks and their consequences holistically. It also identifies the types of attacks that result in access gaining for ransomware attacks and discusses the most powerful and destructive ransomware attacks in the past, which had a significant impact on victims and various organizations in IT infrastructure. At the end of the investigation and analysis, recommendations and conclusions are provided in order to avoid or minimize and reduce the impact of ransomware assaults, making it impossible for the attacker to execute an attack.