CERBER RANSOMWARE


CERBER Evolving & Evading Machine Learning Tools !
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CERBER discovered early 2016 is a ransomware-type malware that infiltrates systems, encrypting files with RSA-512 cipher & RC4 encryption algorithm Cerber adds a .cerber extension or randomly generated four alphanumeric characters to each encrypted file.
When infected, victim's data files are enciphered and a ransom note of 1.24 BitCoins pops-up and also adds a .vbs file, which speaks out its ransom note to get their files back.

**Cerber ransomware is probably a new ransomware as a service, where affiliates can join in order to distribute the ransomware, while the developers earn a commission 40% from each ransom payment and the affiliate getting 60% of profit.

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