Machine Learning Based a Secure Physical Design Solutions for Side Channel Attacks

The main paper i want to invite you on to talk about is titled ran stop, a hardware assisted run time crypto ransomware detection technique. For anyone who's not familiar, i think most listeners will at least be aware of crypto ransom ware attacks. But could you give a high level summary for what's happening there? What security holes that allow such a massive takeover to happen in an organization physically?