Cerberos Ransomware : How To Delete It And Decrypt Your Files

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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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How To Remove Cerberos Ransomware Virus Manually

Step 1 : Restart your computer in safe with networking

• Restart your computer and keep pressing F8 key continuously.

• You will find the Advance Boot Option on your computer screen.

• Select Safe Mode With Networking Option by using arrow keys.

• Login your computer with Administrator account.

Step 2 : Step all Cerberos Ransomware related process

• Press the Windows+R buttons together to open Run Box.

• Type “taskmgr” and Click OK or Hit Enter button.

• Now go to the Process tab and find out Cerberos Ransomware related process.

• Click on End Process button to stop that running process.

Step 3 : Restore Your Windows PC To Factory Settings

System Restore Windows XP

• Log on to Windows as Administrator.
• Click Start > All Programs > Accessories.

• Find System Tools and click System Restore.

• Select Restore my computer to an earlier time and click Next.

• Choose a restore point when system was not infected and click Next.

System Restore Windows 7/Vista

• Go to Start menu and find Restore in the Search box.

• Now select the System Restore option from search results.
• From the System Restore window, click the Next button.

• Now select a restore points when your PC was not infected.

• Click Next and follow the instructions.

System Restore Windows 8

• Go to the search box and type Control Panel.

• Select Control Panel and open Recovery Option.

• Now Select Open System Restore option.

• Find out any recent restore point when your PC was not infected.

• Click Next and follow the instructions.

System Restore Windows 10

• Right click the Start menu and select Control Panel.

• Open Control Panel and Find out the Recovery option.

• Select Recovery > Open System Restore > Next.

• Choose a restore point before infection Next > Finish.

Hope these manual steps help you successfully remove the Cerberos Ransomware infection from your computer. If you have performed all the above manual steps and still can’t access your files or cannot remove this nasty ransomware infection from your computer then you should choose a powerful malware removal tool. You can easily remove this harmful virus from your computer by using third party tool. It is the best and the most easy way to get rid of this infection.

If you have any further question regarding this threat or its removal then you can directly ask your question from our experts. A panel of highly experienced and qualified tech support experts are waiting to help you.