Deterrence, Backup, or Insurance: Game-Theoretic Modeling of Ransomware

In this paper, we present a game-theoretic analysis of ransomware. To this end, we provide theoretical and empirical analysis of a two-player Attacker-Defender (A-D) game, as well as a Defender-Insurer (D-I) game; in the latter, the attacker is assumed to be a non-strategic third party. Our model as...

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Main Authors: Tongxin Yin, Armin Sarabi, Mingyan Liu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-02-01
Series:Games
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4336/14/2/20