Spam and Phishing

We will look at the most popular spammer tricks that use redirects in one way or another, the most common and widely used types of redirect, as well as the distinguishing features and subjects of spam messages containing redirects.

Topical headlines of grabbing news are being used to entice us to click on malicious links.

Kaspersky Lab congratulates the royal couple on the birth of their new baby boy and wish them all well for the future. However because it is such big news, it didn’t take long for malicious elements to misuse it.

According to surveys conducted in Europe and the United States, company employees spend up to 30% of their working hours on private affairs.

Contrary to our forecasts the number of phishing attacks on social networking sites fell in June. However these sites remain the most attractive target for phishers.

As Apple’s popularity grows, so does the desire among fraudsters to make money from the people who own the company’s devices.

May turned out to be fairly varied when it came to spammer creativity. In fraudulent and advertising messages the spammers made active use of well-known…

Kaspersky Lab’s mission is to protect the world from viruses. But the company also believes it has a duty to safeguard our children from content which could be harmful to youngsters.

Lately, our traps have been catching suspicious emails. In them someone with a very English name is asking to book a hotel or air tickets for their family.

The percentage of spam in email traffic was up 2.1 percentage points compared with March and averaged 72.2%.

In China telecom fraud has become an increasingly common crime.

The percentage of spam in total mail traffic was up by 0.5 percentage points in the first quarter, averaging 66.5%.

What a week for being in Boston! I was heading to Source Conference the very same day the blast happened. It-s hard to describe all the intense emotions when I arrived. As president Obama said today to the city of Boston: ?You will run again¦. All my best to you guys, stay strong. In my

The percentage of spam in email traffic was down 1 percentage point compared with February and averaged 70.1%

While many are still in shock after the Boston Marathon bombings on 16 April, it didn’t take long for cyber criminals to abuse that tragic incident for their dirty deeds.
Today we already started receiving emails containing links to malicious locations with names like “news.html”.