{"id":5514,"date":"2025-12-19T17:35:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T17:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mgcomdev.wpenginepowered.com\/glossary\/email-worm-3\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T09:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T09:58:11","slug":"gusano-de-email","status":"publish","type":"glossary","link":"https:\/\/www.mailgun.com\/es\/glosario\/gusano-de-email\/","title":{"rendered":"Gusano de email"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Gusano de email<\/h1>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Un gusano de email es un tipo de <\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">m<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">a<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">lware autorreplicante<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\"> dise\u00f1ado para propagarse a trav\u00e9s del email sin intervenci\u00f3n humana. Suele llegar como un adjunto o enlace en un email malicioso. Al ejecutarse, el gusano utiliza la lista de contactos del dispositivo infectado para enviarse a otros destinatarios, por lo que se propaga r\u00e1pidamente por las redes.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Gusanos de email:<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"97\" data-list-defn-props=\"{\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">No <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">necesitan<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\"> adjuntarse a un archivo existente (a diferencia de los virus)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{\"> <\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"97\" data-list-defn-props=\"{\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">A menudo se hacen pasar por documentos leg\u00edtimos (por ejemplo, facturas o curr\u00edculums)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{\"> <\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"97\" data-list-defn-props=\"{\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Pueden explotar vulnerabilidades de seguridad para ejecutarse autom\u00e1ticamente<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{\"> <\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"97\" data-list-defn-props=\"{\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Pueden causar problemas de entrega generalizados si se env\u00edan a trav\u00e9s de cuentas comprometidas<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{\"> <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Aunque hoy en d\u00eda son menos comunes debido a\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mailgun.com\/blog\/it-and-engineering\/guia-seguridad-seguridad-basica-infraestructura\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">las pr\u00e1cticas de seguridad modernas<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"none\">, los gusanos de email siguen existiendo y pueden ser bloqueados o marcados por los filtros de spam, especialmente si los adjuntos o los patrones de env\u00edo se asemejan al comportamiento de un gusano conocido.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gusano de email Un gusano de email es un tipo de malware autorreplicante dise\u00f1ado para propagarse a trav\u00e9s del email sin intervenci\u00f3n humana. Suele llegar como un adjunto o enlace en un email malicioso. Al ejecutarse, el gusano utiliza la lista de contactos del dispositivo infectado para enviarse a otros destinatarios, por lo que se [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-5514","glossary","type-glossary","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Gusano de email: glosario de t\u00e9rminos de email | Mailgun<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Los ciberdelincuentes utilizan gusanos de email para obtener informaci\u00f3n personal de los usuarios de forma encubierta para el robo de identidad. 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