A new ransomware threat speaks to its victim to inform them that it has successfully encrypted their files.

Lots of ransomware stories this week. We have two new decryptors, quite a few new ransomware infections, PadCrypt being hidden inside a fake credit card generator, and a few new variants. The ...

Cerber, the latest ransomware threat, doesn’t just encrypt all of your files: it also tells you about it, out loud, and repeatedly. It’s like something out of a 90s hacker movie, except this ...

Researchers have discovered that criminals behind the latest Cerber ransomware variant are leveraging Google redirects and Tor2Web proxies in a new and novel way to evade detection.

The Cerber family of ransomware is already one of the most successful variants of file-encrypting malware, at least partially thanks to its malicious authors spreading it by offering the code to ...

A new variant of the infamous Cerber ransomware has been found, which has the ability to evade detection and analysis by researchers by ceasing to run whenever a virtual machine is detected.

The Cerber ransomware is sold as a service to cybercriminals and contains an audio message for victims, researchers find.

Not much has changed with Cerber in regards to the actual encryption. When encrypting files, much to chagrin of system administrators everywhere, it still scrambles the files names as shown below.

A new report from Malwarebytes shows the rapid growth of Locky and Cerber -- the most prevalent forms of ransomware -- and where they're coming from.