HIDDENEXT/Worm.Gen
Posted: May 17, 2013
Threat Metric
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Threat Level: The threat level scale goes from 1 to 10 where 10 is the highest level of severity and 1 is the lowest level of severity. Each specific level is relative to the threat's consistent assessed behaviors collected from SpyHunter's risk assessment model.
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Volume Count: Similar to the detection count, the Volume Count is specifically based on the number of confirmed and suspected threats infecting systems on a daily basis. High volume counts usually represent a popular threat but may or may not have infected a large number of systems. High detection count threats could lay dormant and have a low volume count. Criteria for Volume Count is relative to a daily detection count.
Trend Path: The Trend Path, utilizing an up arrow, down arrow or equal symbol, represents the level of recent movement of a particular threat. Up arrows represent an increase, down arrows represent a decline and the equal symbol represent no change to a threat's recent movement.
% Impact (Last 7 Days): This demonstrates a 7-day period change in the frequency of a malware threat infecting PCs. The percentage impact correlates directly to the current Trend Path to determine a rise or decline in the percentage.
Ranking: | 1,977 |
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Threat Level: | 1/10 |
Infected PCs: | 10,715 |
First Seen: | May 17, 2013 |
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Last Seen: | October 16, 2023 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
HIDDENEXT/Worm.Gen is a worm that proliferates via spam email messages, which include bogus invoices from Zalando and Deutsche Bahn. The unsolicited email dupes affected computer user into running a malevolent file, found as HIDDENEXT/Worm.Gen. Cybercrooks are sending personalized emails in the German language allegedly coming from the popular website Zalando.de (shoes and women accessories) and from the Deutsche Bahn (German Railways). The text is addressed to the attacked computer PC user directly, and it threatens him/her so that the computer user opens the ZIP archive and runs the harmful file. If the victimized computer user opens and executes the damaging file, his/her PC will get affected by HIDDENEXT/Worm.Gen.
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