New Ransomware-as-a-Service Speaks To Victims (csoonline.com)

itwbennett writes: Cerber, a new file-encrypting ransom ware, has a couple of interesting features. First, according to cyber intelligence outfit SenseCy, it is available for sale 'as a service' on a private Russian-language forum, which makes it 'available to low-level criminals who might not have the coding skills or resources to create their own ransom ware,' writes Lucian Constantin. Second, one of the 3 files it drops on a victim's desktop is a VBS (Visual Basic Scripting) file containing text-to-speech code that converts text into an audio message. 'When the above script is executed, your computer will speak a message stating that your computer's files were encrypted and will repeat itself numerous times,' said Lawrence Abrams, administrator of the technical support forum BleepingComputer.com, in a blog post.

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There's also paper-based ransomware

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Have you heard about the paper-based ransomware that's been going about the USA? It automatically searches for papers containing images of presidents, and locks them up, preventing you from accessing them. It supposedly offers you a way to unlock them again, but in reality that's just a waste of time. It's called the Civil Asset Forfeiture Trojan, and seems to have infested many government agencies.