In August marked drop in the share of spam in mail traffic

In August marked drop in the share of spam in mail traffic

In August, the share of unwanted messages in the global e-mail traffic, according to estimates, "Kaspersky Lab" was 67.6%, which is 3.6% below the July figure. If this is due to the holiday season, the rest left the most innocuous spammers: the proportion of phishing emails compared to the previous month increased by more than 10 times, and the proportion of emails with malicious attachments - two and a half, reaching 5.6% at the end of all electronic communications. These are the results of a study of spam activity for August 2013. Topics promotional emails once again was dictated by the season. Experts have registered a wide variety of advertising messages, exploited the theme of the Day of Knowledge. As usual, the distributors of these letters used a noisy titles and phone numbers in order to impede the detection of spam filters. Also, spammers used the introduction of changes to the system of fines from September 1 to advertise films that hide license plate from cameras, and other services and accessories for automobiles. history of fraudulent sites on the "pay" fines traffic police will be continued. Experts "Kaspersky Lab" recorded mailing in which attackers offered the user to know about all debts, including fines, loans and taxes. A set of data required for a more or less "standard": passport details, TIN numbers of certificates and other documents. So scammers gather information about citizens of the Russian Federation, which later could be used for a variety of scams. However, some sites require confirmation mobile number sending SMS, for which a user without warning written off a significant amount of money. Malicious email attachments began to meet in two and a half times more than in July. Despite the fact that the holiday season is coming to an end, the fraudsters continue to actively send out fake messages that tell about the non-existent booking flights and hotels - the names of the most prominent companies in this sphere are constantly in the arsenal of the spammers. Address of the sender of phishing emails at first glance it seems quite legitimate that can lull the user. In a letter to the victim under various pretexts asked to open malicious attachments or follow the link that initiates the download file to your hard disk. In both cases, the user's computer is infected by the Trojan Tepfer, steals usernames and passwords. Phishing emails has increased tenfold. In August, "Kaspersky Lab" recorded sending letters supposedly came from the official Apple addresses and asks the user to confirm the details of your account iTunes, by clicking the attached link. However, the most often used for phishing, organizations still remain social networks. Troika of the leading countries that send in the aggregate, more than half the world's spam, has not changed - it's still China, the U.S. and South Korea. However, changes have occurred in RuNet: on the second line has moved from seventh place Russia, whose territory in August was sent more than 10% of unwanted mail. "In the summer, spam becomes much more dangerous, not only increases the number of fraudulent messages, but also messages containing malicious files. Remember that well-known organizations are very rarely asked to transfer personal data suddenly confirm your account details, or open the attachment. In such cases it is best to contact support organizations on whose behalf the letter came, and find out whether such distribution is actually "- says Tatiana recommendations Shcherbakov, senior spam analyst" Kaspersky Lab ".