Dissemination and Scientific Publications about Ranflood

Publications

  • Berardi, D., Giallorenzo, S., Melis, A., Melloni, S., Onori, L., & Prandini, M. (2023). Data Flooding against Ransomware: Concepts and Implementations. Computers & Security, 103295.

    Article at Elsevier | Pre-print version

  • Berardi, D., Giallorenzo, S., Melis, A., Melloni, S., & Prandini, D. (2023). Ranflood: A mitigation tool based on the principles of data flooding against ransomware. SoftwareX 25, 101605.

    Article at Elsevier

  • Giallorenzo, S., Melloni, S., & Sami, P. (2025). Reliable and Robust Watermarking for Data Flooding against Ransomware Random Techniques. 24th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, TrustCom 2025, Guiyang, China, November 14-17, 2025, 566-577. IEEE.

    Article at IEEE Xplore

  • D'Ugo, D., Giallorenzo, S., & Melloni, S. (2025). Contrasting Crypto and Exfiltration Ransomware with Shamir's Secret Sharing Data Flooding. 24th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, TrustCom 2025, Guiyang, China, November 14-17, 2025, 3143-3151. IEEE.

    Article at IEEE Xplore

Media

  • "Come funziona Ranflood, lo strumento italiano open source anti ransomware basato sulla “trappola dinamica” ", CyberSecurity Italia - Quotidiano online

  • "Contro gli attacchi ransomware arriva Ranflood: la 'trappola dinamica' che insegue i virus", news article at UniBo Magazine (ITA)

  • "Unibo e Arpae alleate contro i virus informatici", news article at ARPAE Coordinamento editoriale (ITA)

  • "Minaccia ransomware: Arpae e Unibo alleate nel contrasto dei virus informatici", news article at Sistema Nazionale per la Protezione dell'Ambiente (ITA)

  • "L'Università di Bologna mette in trappola i virus informatici", news article at Il Resto del Carlino (ITA)