CryptoDrop: Are you willing to sacrifice some of your files to save the rest before they are encrypted by some modern ransomware?
The answer from most victims is probably a capital "YES". This is exactly her mode of CryptoDrop.
It is a new anti-ransomware solution, which apparently works perfectly with the various anti-virus that circulate. It was created by a team of researchers from the University of Florida and Villanova University.
It works like an early warning system, and it sacrifices some files to be able to detect and stop the action of ransomware.
Detects typical ransomware actions such as: bulk modification, new file types, delete files, detects significant differences between files, sudden appearance of a large number of files of the same type, etc.
Unfortunately the solution still exists just like a prototype. Researchers are looking for a financier to help them turn it into a commercial product.
But no doubt the new security solution is quite effective.
See the presentation video (uploaded to the University Channel):
"We ran our crawler with several hundred samples of ransomware and detected 100% of them, as they had only encrypted 10 files," said Nolen Scaife, a PhD student at the University of Florida and one of CryptoDrop's researchers.
His colleague, Patrick Traynor, an associate professor at the Department of Computer Science and Computer Science at Florida University, reports that about one-tenth of 1% of the records were lost, but the tool gains the advantage and becomes much more flexible.
