Threat Database Trojans Trojan.Win32.Buzus.cyms

Trojan.Win32.Buzus.cyms

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Threat Scorecard

Ranking: 8,831
Threat Level: 20 % (Normal)
Infected Computers: 1,167
First Seen: April 18, 2012
Last Seen: September 19, 2023
OS(es) Affected: Windows

The Trojan.Win32.Buzus.cyms Trojan is designed to send out spam from the infected computer system. It uses the victim's email account information and contacts in order to send out spam to other computers. This spam also helps to distribute Trojan.Win32.Buzus.cyms to other computer systems. ESG security analysts have been following the development of Trojan.Win32.Buzus.cyms for several years, and Trojan.Win32.Buzus.cyms has been used as a common tool in order to carry out spam attacks. The Win32/Buzus family of Trojans is still active in 2012 and is often used to send out spam email and to cause browser redirects. Because Trojan.Win32.Buzus.cyms is well-known, most fully-updated anti-malware applications should be able to deal with a Trojan.Win32.Buzus.cyms infection without too many problems.

The most common ways in which Trojan.Win32.Buzus.cyms spread is through spam email. Because of this, avoiding suspicious emails, unsolicited email attachments, and using a strong spam filter are the best measures you can take to avoid becoming infected with Trojan.Win32.Buzus.cyms. ESG security researchers strongly advise treating Trojan.Win32.Buzus.cyms as a severe threat not only to your computer system but to computer systems belonging to your email contacts.

How Trojan.Win32.Buzus.cyms Uses Email to Carry Out Its Attack

The main strategy that Trojan.Win32.Buzus.cyms uses to propagate requires using the victim's computer in order to e-mail copies of itself to the victim's email contacts. The victim is not likely to notice this in their own "Sent" mailbox or to notice other signs that this is going on. This is because Trojan.Win32.Buzus.cyms has its own SMTP email client which allows Trojan.Win32.Buzus.cyms to send out email independently. While Trojan.Win32.Buzus.cyms may use system resources, Trojan.Win32.Buzus.cyms is not much of a resource hog and attacks may go unnoticed indefinitely. Most of the time, computer users will notice a Trojan infection because their email contacts have received spam email messages supposedly sent by the victim's email address. Trojan.Win32.Buzus.cyms can cause other problems on the infected computer system. It will often have conflicts with other Windows applications and components, causing your operating system to become unstable. It may also cause your computer system to become vulnerable to other attacks since part of Trojan.Win32.Buzus.cyms installation process involves decreasing or disabling the infected computer system's security settings.

URLs

Trojan.Win32.Buzus.cyms may call the following URLs:

videomixair.ru

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