Kaspersky Lab Released Monthly Report on Spammer Activity
OREANDA-NEWS. May 21, 2012. Kaspersky Lab’s monthly report on spammer activity shows the proportion of spam in email traffic was up 2.2 percentage points in April compared to the previous month and averaged 77.2%. There were also some major changes in the geographical distribution of spam sources.
The most noticeable change over the month was a surge in spam originating in the
Spammers who spread malicious code and phishing emails are still looking for the best shortcut to reach computer users. In April, we detected spam that at first glance appeared to be the usual malicious mass mailings designed to look like an official Facebook notification. An email, allegedly from the social network, announced a new Friend Request on Facebook. However, the links in the messages took the users to infected pages on Wikipedia and Amazon. Other phishing emails appeared in spam traffic playing off of the impatience of gamers anxiously awaiting Diablo III’s release. The emails stated that they would be given the opportunity to play a beta version of Diablo III for a specific period of time. In order to do so, they would need to enter their battle.net account information (a resource where Blizzard account information is stored). Of course, the link in the email did not lead to the specified site, but to a phishing webpage.
Political spam got back in on the action in April, primarily targeting US and French readers. Mentions of Barack Obama in spam emails were as frequent as they were during the first year after his election. Furthermore, his name is used not only in political emails “exposing his political course” or pointing to the allegation that the President of the
There is also more and more spam exploiting the European football championships and the Summer Olympics in
“In the months to come, we expect a return of the all-too-familiar spam mailings with scandalous news items about current
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