A Different Approach to Anti-Ransomware
Over the past few years, many endpoint security products have popped up. However, when it comes to Anti-Ransomware solutions there are typically only three ways that these products attempt to protect a device. Some products use only one of these techniques while other products use two or even all three of these techniques. Detection and blocking The first way that these products protect you is through detection. They use different techniques, such as signatures, machine learning, heuristics, behavior analysis, or other means to detect the ransomware and then block it. Detecting and blocking ransomware is the typical way that Anti-Ransomware with antivirus software works. This is very effective for known ransomware and other malware types. However, Fully Undetectable (FUD) ransomware cannot be blocked with these solutions. To make matters worse, ransomware authors will routinely check their ransomware against services like VirusTotal to ensure that their ransomware cannot be detected by