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15 February 2018 According to Kaspersky Lab’s “Spam and phishing in 2017” report, criminals have been following a global agenda and have been using hot topics such as FIFA 2018 and Bitcoin to fool users and steal their money or personal information in the last 12...
17 November 2015Kaspersky Lab’s latest report – ‘Spam and Phishing in Q3 2015’ reveals the latest spam and phishing trends across the globe
17 August 2015Kaspersky Lab’s latest report – ‘spam and phishing in Q2 of 2015’ – reveals spam in the second quarter of 2015 was dominated by letters based on real events
19 May 2015The new range of top level domains, launched in January 2015 and intended for use by relevant communities and organizations, has proved irresistible to spammers according to Kaspersky Lab’s Q1 2015 analysis of the spam and phishing threats landscape.
16 March 2015For the fourth year running programmes designed to steal users logins, passwords and other confidential data remain on top of the list of the most widespread malware distributed by email, according to Kaspersky Lab.
24 October 2014In September spammers produced topical new versions of the old “Nigerian Letter” scam, this time based on the Ebola virus.
29 September 2014Kaspersky Lab has analysed the evolution of spam in August. According to the company’s experts, August saw phishing activity increase almost 1.5 times with 32 million detections.
3 September 2014Although it’s the height of summer and most businesses are in a natural lull, Kaspersky Lab’s experts reported a substantial increase in the amount of financial phishing in spam.
30 April 2014Despite the increased share of phishing attacks on online stores, the most frequently attacked category of organization was still social networking sites (23.5%).
2 April 2014 According to the data collected for Kaspersky Lab’s study ‘Financial cyber threats in 2013’, cybercriminals are trying harder than ever to acquire confidential user information and steal money from bank accounts by creating fake sites mimicking...
26 March 2014A lot of malicious attachments in February’s spam came in emails allegedly sent by women who wanted to make new friends in the run-up to Valentine's Day.
4 March 2014The analysts at Kaspersky Lab have published the results of the company’s spam monitoring for the first month of 2014.
30 January 2014 The experts at Kaspersky Lab explain the dangers posed by loan offers sent out in spam, what can happen if users reply to spam messages, and also provide some useful tips on how to avoid falling victim to unscrupulous financial organizations and...
28 January 2014The experts at Kaspersky Lab have summarized spammer activity for 2013
26 November 2013October saw spammers exploiting the themes of upcoming holidays, the names of well-known telecommunication service providers and the conflict in Syria.
7 November 2013The percentage of spam in total email traffic during the third quarter of the year came to 68.3%, down 2.4 percentage points from the second quarter.
30 October 2013The ongoing conflict and complex political situation in Syria have created the perfect conditions for new ‘Nigerian’ scams.
9 October 2013In August, unsolicited emails made up 67.6% of all global email traffic, according to Kaspersky Lab figures.
22 August 2013The results of spam monitoring in July point to a lack of variety among malware targets — nearly every malicious program was after personal user data.
5 August 2013In Q2 the percentage of spam in total email traffic increased by 4.2% from the first quarter of 2013 and came to 70.7%
30 July 2013According to Kaspersky Lab, the percentage of spam in email traffic in June was up 1.4 percentage points and averaged 71.1%. Malicious attachments were found in 1.8% of all emails, a drop of 1 percentage point compared to the previous month
24 June 2013In May, the percentage of spam in email traffic was down 2.5 percentage points and averaged 69.7%
8 May 2013 According to Kaspersky Lab’s spam report, in Q1 2013, the amount of unsolicited correspondence in email traffic grew slightly (+0.53 percentage points) and averaged 66.55%. The increase in the proportion of emails with malicious attachments was also...
18 April 2013 The death of Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez not only hit the global headlines – it also alerted fraudsters to the Latin American country. There was an instant reaction to the news, and it immediately began to appear in mass...