The amount of spam in mail traffic in July was 71.2%
According to the report, "Kaspersky Lab", the share of spam in mail traffic in July increased by 0.1% to 71.2%. Phishing emails in the mail stream as compared to June fell more than doubled and amounted to 0.0012%. Malicious attachments contained in 2.2% of all electronic communications, which is 0.4% higher than last month. in July continued to record the distribution in which spammers have exploited the interest of users in the most important events of the month. Thus, the birth of the son of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and a spy scandal involving Edward Snowden did not go unnoticed spammers. Attackers have traditionally sent out letters with malicious links that mimic messages from news agencies with links to breaking news.
Additionally, users' interest in these events was used to draw attention to spam advertising. So, the excitement of the birth of the heir to Prince William, spammers used in advertising printing services and advertising equipment. In honor of the long-awaited company offered discounts on roller stands. A scandal involving former U.S. intelligence officer Edward Snowden used by spammers in advertising products for weight loss. And in the theme of these letters, these goods could not be mentioned in the message is not asked to learn about methods of weight loss, and details of stories Snowden. A reference to the "details" has led to an advertising page. More precisely Edward Snowden's name was used in the German-language advertising programs for the protection of information. Members urged to buy the advertised product, since recognition of Snowden's definitely proves the existence of the Internet mass surveillance. Ramadan this year, the Muslim holy month of Ramadan occurred at the beginning of July and August. Every year we fix mailing exploit this theme, including to attract attention of recipients.
This year was no exception: we observed multiple feeds in English, not only with the traditional Ramadan dishes advertising restaurants and nightlife, but also with advertising vehicles and summer recreation for children. Traditionally, the heroes of Nigerian letters are relatives or associates of famous rich people, or dead, or in a difficult life situation. In July, Egypt was toppled President Mohamed Mursi. Within a few days we had been locked scam mail, the name of the operating ex-president of Egypt. Nigerian In the letter, allegedly written by former Secretary of the President, it is reported that the President of frozen accounts, as well as the former president and his secretary are under house arrest , then look for Mursi Muslim who can transfer the money President stored in one of the European banks at their own expense.
As a reward, of course, offered a tempting amount of money. But the classics of the genre suggests quite different: the naive user not only did not receive any remuneration, but also lose a considerable amount of money, which the fraudsters to lure him under one pretext or another. rare variant fraud report also states opisme, which was a fairly rare option fraud. With the address, which is similar to the address of the bank Australia and New Zealand Banking Group, the user received a letter with a message about restricting access to his account in the on-line banking. To restore access please call the phone number listed in the letter. Call to the specified number will clearly not be safe: at best, with the caller's telephone withdraw money, and at worst - fished him any bank details.
Relevance of the tourism theme in the summer is very high, and experts continue to commit malicious mailings, allegedly came from behalf of various airlines. In July, it was a fake notification on behalf of the U.S. airline United AirLines. The user is informed that the number of its seats in the plane changed and updated information can be found in the attached file flight document upgrade.doc.zip. The archive contains an executable file named flight document upgrade.doc.exe, which is detected by "Kaspersky Lab" as Backdoor.Win32.Vawtrak.a. This backdoor is used by hackers to steal passwords stored in browsers passwords for FTP and email clients. The malware also sends their owners screenshots of the desktop and gives them full access to the infected computer, allowing attackers to download and run on the user's various files.
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