How Attackers Determine the Ransom in Ransomware Attacks

Tom Meurs; Marianne Junger; Abhishta Abhishta; Erik Tews

doi:10.13140/RG.2.2.34435.58400

How Attackers Determine the Ransom in Ransomware Attacks

Tom Meurs, Marianne Junger, Abhishta Abhishta, Erik Tews

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Ransomware may lead to massive economic damage to victims [13]. However, it is still unclear how attackers determine the amount of ransom. In this poster we empirically study the ransom requested by attackers in ransomware attacks. We analysed 371 ransomware attacks reported to the Dutch Police between 2019 and 2021. Our results indicate that attacker’s effort and opportunity are important predictors for the ransom requested. The goal of the poster is to invite other researchers for collaboration.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	7th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (Euro S&P 2022)
Publisher	ResearchGate
Number of pages	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.34435.58400
Publication status	Published - 4 Jun 2022
Event	7th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy 2022 - Genoa, Italy Duration: 6 Jun 2022 → 10 Jun 2022 Conference number: 7

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Conference	7th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy 2022
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Genoa
Period	6/06/22 → 10/06/22

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How Attackers Determine the Ransom in Ransomware Attacks
Meurs, T. (Creator), Junger, M. (Creator), Abhishta, A. (Creator) & Tews, E. (Creator), Zenodo, 6 Jun 2022
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7068711, https://zenodo.org/record/7068712 and one more link, https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.7068711 (show fewer)
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