Spam and Phishing

In June, high-profile news events such as the FIFA World Cup and the situation in Ukraine were exploited by fraudsters to extract money and financial information from users. The holiday season has brought an increase in the number of fake notifications from various booking services containing malicious attachments.

Cybercriminals around the world have already started to point their guns and attacks at the new gTLDs, the ‘generic Top Level Domains’ approved by ICANN and offered by registrars to people interested in buying a new domain name. Recently we found malicious activities including malware and phishing pages registered in the top level domains .club,

At the end of last week we came across a curious method of distributing links to a phishing page that collects users’ personal data.

In the run-up to the summer, spammers offered their potential customers seedlings and seeds for gardening. In addition, English-language festive spam in May was dedicated to Mother’s Day – the attackers sent out adverts offering flowers and candies.

The percentage of spam in email traffic in April came to 71.1%, which is 7.6 percentage points more than in the March.

It’s time for a risqué subject: looking for love on the internet. With a myriad services promising chemistry-driven matches, dating game contestants have flocked to web services and apps. Despite this proliferation of new avenues, those in a particular rush to find company (in the form of ‘No Strings Attached’ encounters) have turned to a

In this first part we’ll look at some very professional phishing and malware attacks that use digitally-signed malware, a breached customer database used for online ticket sales, SSL-certified phishing domains and a lot of social engineering.

Who hasn’t dreamt of Lady Luck smiling on them and bestowing untold wealth without having to make the slightest effort?

Yesterday Colombian users got an email accusing them of committed tax fraud and evasion. This is a classic social engineering avenue

The percentage of spam in total email traffic during the first quarter this year came to 66.34%. Attackers spread fake email notifications from mobile applications.

In March, spammers weren’t content to stick with traditional holiday-related advertising; they also used holiday-themed messages to con personal information from users of social networks.

Spammers use all types of tricks to bypass spam filters: adding ‘noise’ to texts, inserting redirects to advertised sites, replacing text with pictures – anything to stop the automatic filter from reading the keywords and blocking the message. Recently, we’ve been seeing a trend to replace Latin characters with similar-looking symbols from other alphabets. This

On the eve of Easter, we noticed an unusual chain of spam messages.

According to KSN data, Kaspersky Lab products blocked a total of 1131000866 malicious attacks on computers and mobile devices in the first quarter of 2014.

Cybercriminals often like to use a bogus letter to trick people into opening malicious attachments. There are two tricks that make this work: a message from a familiar name (a bank, social network, service provider or other organization that might interest the recipient) and an intriguing or alarming subject. An attack based on fake messages