Cerberos Ransomware : How To Delete It And Decrypt Your Files

Cerberos Ransomware : Latest investigation report on it

 

A new ransomware variant has been spotted in the second last week of April 2017 named as Cerberos Ransomware. It is appeared as a familiar threat. According to malware experts this ransom virus is based on Cyber Splitter Vbs Ransomware, which has been upgraded and that has been identically detected as CyberSplitter 2.0 Ransomware. It has been proved that the Cyber Splitter Vbs group uses a auto executable of "cerberos.exe" program as a primary executable program. This following ransom threat has been primarily delivered to your system with the help of using fake updates of Adobe Acrobat Reader program designed by the Adobe Systems Inc., and the program installers may run as "pdf.exe". Some other way by which system users got infected by opening a corrupted documents which contains double extension and has been programmed to install this ransom virus on the systems.

Cerberos Ransomware may affect users in South America, Western Europe and North America

The Cerberos Ransomware is not uses a wide infection distribution network but due to this reason you can take this malware lightly because it can also make some disastrous works on your system. It encode your data types which is stored on your system at various locations such as local drives, attached network storage, removable media drives and similar ones. Files are encrypted with a highly advanced cipher AES_256 and the decryption key has been send on the "Command and Control" servers. It encode your data containers and replaces their default icons, and images but your Windows Explorer can not load their thumbnails of files such as pdfs, images, presentations, docs, e-books, and videos because these were locked by this ransom threat after encryption. In an analysis it is found that it encrypts some of the following data types which is given in the below image :

Then after it displays a ransom note on the victims system titled as "cerberos" featured in a text. It also deleted your Shadow Volume Copies from your system that may ruin your option of backup of your files. Once it done its malicious work then it shows a ransom message as

 

Do not get into the tricks of the cyber criminals

Unluckily, the encode process of this Cerberos Ransomware is make data recovery impossible without a decryption tool with a unique private key. it means that one is valid for only one but you should not pay the ransom to the hackers. You should remove Cerberos Ransomware by using a strong anti-malware on the system. Then run backup for retrieval of lost files. It has been also detected by some of the antivirus as

• W32/Trojan.PBUL-0362
• Gen:Variant.Razy.159048
• Ransom.FileCryptor
• Ransom_CERBEROS.A

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What To Do If Your PC Get Infected By Cerberos Ransomware

The ransomware infection has been mainly designed with the purpose to scare users and trick their money. It take your files on hostage and demand ransom to return your important data. But now the question is what you can do when your system got infected by Cerberos Ransomware virus? Here are some option that you can use to get rid of this nasty infection.

Don’t Panic – Well the first thing is Don’t panic and then completely check out your system for any working files. If you got any working files then copy it to USB drive.

Pay Ransom – Other option is you can pay the ransom and wait to get your files back. (really a bad option)

Use Backup – Clean you entire system files, remove the infection completely from your PC and restore your files with any backup.

Remove Infection – You can also delete Cerberos Ransomware virus using malware removal tool and remove all the infected files. You can later recover all your data by using any data recovery tool. (In case you don’t have backup of your files.) – Recommended Method.

Reinstall Windows – The last option is reinstall your Windows OS. It will completely remove all your data as well as infection. You will get a completely new infection free PC.

How To Remove Cerberos Ransomware Virus From Your PC

Step 1 – Boot your computer in Safe mode.

Step 2 – Remove the infected registry entry files.

• Click Windows Flag and R button together.

• Type “regedit” and click OK button

• Find and delete following entries.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREsupWPM

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesWpm

HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerMain “Default_Page_URL”

HKEY_LOCAL_Machine\Software\Classes\[Cerberos Ransomware]

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\[Cerberos Ransomware]

Step 3 – Remove From msconfig

• Click Windows + R buttons simultaneously.

• Type msconfig and press Enter

• Go to Startup tab and uncheck all entries from unknown manufacturer.

Step 4 – Restart your computer normally.

Check your computer now. If the virus has gone then you can start using your computer. If the infection still remains then head to the next step.

Step 5 – System Restore

• Insert Windows installation disk to CD drive and restart your PC.
• While system startup, keep pressing F8 or F12 key to get boot options.
• Now select the boot from CD drive option to start your computer.
• Then after you will get the System Recovery Option on your screen.
• Select the System Restore option from the list.
• Choose a nearest system restore point when your PC was not infected.
• Now follow the option on your screen to Restore your computer.

If the above manual methods didn’t removed Cerberos Ransomware virus then you have only option to remove infection using a malware removal tool. It is last and the only option that can easily and safely remove this nasty threat from your computer.

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