Isha Sood*, Varsha Sharma
CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.81, No.2, pp. 2791-2818, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.055463
- 18 November 2024
Abstract Ransomware has emerged as a critical cybersecurity threat, characterized by its ability to encrypt user data or lock devices, demanding ransom for their release. Traditional ransomware detection methods face limitations due to their assumption of similar data distributions between training and testing phases, rendering them less effective against evolving ransomware families. This paper introduces TLERAD (Transfer Learning for Enhanced Ransomware Attack Detection), a novel approach that leverages unsupervised transfer learning and co-clustering techniques to bridge the gap between source and target domains, enabling robust detection of both known and unknown ransomware variants. The proposed method More >