A latest and dangerous malware threats has arrived known as Cerber. This is highly spreading Ransomware threats, which enters from anywhere and can harm your system in different ways. It is well said that the year 2016 is becoming the year of ransomware. Till now it is not clear that from where the new Cerber ransomware is coming from but as per SenseCy, it is offered as service on close underground Russian forum. This means that it is a new ransom and where affiliates can join if they want to spread the threat and developers can earn revenue from each ransom payment.
What is Ransomware and what it does?
Ransomware is one of the harmful threat especially designed to disable users access to their own computer until they pay the ransom amount. This new ransom ware threat is very dangerous because it infect the computer network and can also infect shared network and external drives in a matter of hours.
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Remember that whenever you get an unknown attachment, you should not open those attachments and never click on any link that look suspicious as hitting on those links can redirect to some malicious sites.
What if I get infected?
When your system gets infected with this threat the first thing that you will notice is that your data files are encrypted by using military grade AES encryption and you will be instructed to pay the amount of 1.24 bitcoins or 500 USD to get back the files. Well, the process is little difficult as the amount needs to be converted from US dollars to BitCoin.
Second thing you cannot decrypt the file without paying the amount but if you got the backup then you can surely restore the files without paying the ransom. As your system gets infected it starts displaying pop-up which states that your computer is infected and you need to pay the ransom before the countdown gets over.
The Cerber Encryption Process
After infecting users system it start checking whether the victim is from the below mentioned countries. If the victim is from those countries then it will automatically terminate itself. The countries include:
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Russia, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
For more Information visit: Cerber ransomware not only steals your data but also speaks to you
