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Encrypting malware, or ransomware, is a serious security threat that causes an increasing number of data loss incidents. Ransomware attacks are extremely difficult to recover from. In particular, maintaining an automated cloud backup does not help protect against encrypting malware. While following a concise backup strategy goes a long way helping to make the effect of such attacks negligible, most computer users don’t have a backup strategy at all or rely solely on cloud storage for all their backup needs. As we’ll show below, this is not the right strategy in the case of ransomware attacks.

Content-aware search uses an implementation of a signature search algorithm in order to identify and locate files of certain types. In general, a persistent file signature is used to detect the very existence of a file, then header analysis is performed in order to determine the length of the file.