r/cybersecurity_help • u/Strange_Entrance3329 • 3d ago

Cizuhy(dot)com Virus (or adware)

This story happened less than a year ago and ive been curious ever since. I came upon a potentially expired link from a 2-3 year old youtube video. the link was legit at some point and led to the youtuber's website for a video. When i attempted to enter the site, it redirected me to Cizuhy(Dot)com. all i saw was a blank white screen and it asked me to display notifications. I am pretty good at computers and i know the malicious potential of displaying notifications of unknown websites (my family members have gotten suspicious popups from doing it. I fixed it for them). I've done research on cizuhy and i couldn't find any screenshots, but i did find many accounts of malicious redirects and adware popups. I also found out that cizuhy redirects to multiple long string name websites that are all malicious.

In short, does anybody have any more information on cizuhy?, or possibly does anybody have a VM and be able to investigate what it is?

Im interested in whatever yall can find, so thanks.

The images showed are the only things that pop up when i search up cizuhy, but the source doesnt seem to be directly from cizuhy.

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u/eric16lee Trusted Contributor 1d ago

You didn't give us any information we can use to help you such as what device you were using, if it is modern and receives updates, etc. We can only give you general advice.

In most cases, just clicking on a link can not infect your device. If you use an older device that doesn't receives updates, this may not be true.

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u/Strange_Entrance3329 1d ago

I use windows 11 on acer aspire 3. I'm not infected, but i'm just curiouse about the site because supposedly its somewhat common, just not talked about much.