AI-Driven Ransomware Detection

Malware scanners only catch yesterday’s threats. Modern ransomware hides in snapshots and backups, bypassing endpoint and CNAPP defenses. Elastio was built to expose these hidden attacks, proving every recovery point is clean and safe to restore.

Why Malware, Anomaly, and Entropy Scans Fail?

Signature-Dependent

Malware scanners rely on known patterns, missing novel or polymorphic attacks.

Entropy & Anomaly Blind Spots

Partial encryption keeps file entropy low, while “low-and-slow” attacks spread encryption gradually. Both tactics bypass anomaly- and entropy-based tools.

False Assurance

A “malware clean” or “entropy normal” result doesn’t mean backups are recoverable. Ransomware encryption still corrupts backups silently.

Modern Tactics That Evade Current Security Tools

Ransomware keeps changing its playbook. Partial encryption, metadata tricks, slow encryption, and file renaming are just a few tactics that now bypass traditional malware detection, backup validation, and CNAPP tools.

Partial Encryption

Low file entropy tricks signature and entropy-based scanners.

Unchanged Metadata

Metadata-only scans never see the corruption.

Base64 Encoding

Obfuscated content slips through unless files are deeply inspected.

Slow Encryption

Gradual encryption over days evades anomaly-based alerts.

File Renaming

Renamed files break the link to originals, making clean recovery impossible.

Elastio’s Data Integrity Engine

Elastio’s AI-driven Data Integrity Engine was purpose-built to detect advanced tactics and Zero-Day ransomware before they corrupt recovery.

Ransomware Research

Reverse-engineered and detonated 2,300+ ransomware families and 10,000+ variants. Built specifically to detect ransomware encryption, not just signatures.

Behavioral Models

AI/ML models detect unknown and polymorphic ransomware. Extremely low false positives: fewer than 5 in 10 million files Detects zero-day ransomware with 98.4% accuracy

Temporal Analysis

Tracks file changes over time to expose slow and obfuscated encryption. Detects modern ransomware that bypasses endpoint and backup anomaly detection.

Why This Matters to You?

“I need to prove we can recover from ransomware, not just assume. Elastio gives me verifiable assurance that my backups are clean and recovery is a security control I can stand behind.” CISO, Large Financial Services Enterprise

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Security Leaders

Assurance that ransomware encryption won’t be missed, even if malware scanners say “all clear.”

Technology Leaders

Prevents data loss and downtime by detecting ransomware before it spreads across snapshots.

Boards & Risk Officers

Confidence that ransomware encryption is intercepted, not ignored, proving resilience.

The Difference Between AI Detection and Validation

  • AI-Driven Detection = Capability – The intelligence that finds ransomware encryption.
  • Continuous Validation = Process – How Elastio applies this detection across every backup, snapshot, and replica.
  • Provable Recovery = Outcome – The result: last known clean points (R-RPO) that prove recovery is safe

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