Spam and Phishing

This is the topic that cybercriminals are speculating about and using as a hook to infect victims. The campaign is based on the Blackhole v2.0

The percentage of spam in email traffic was down 7.7 percentage points compared with December and averaged 58.3%

In the world of espionage, a ‘honey trap’ traditionally involves a seductive encounter designed to coax information out of an agent, or to compromise him in his work.

The percentage of spam in email traffic was up 3.1 percentage points from November and averaged 66%.

The amount of spam fell throughout the course of the entire year. At the close of 2012, the percentage of spam settled at 72.1%, or 8.2% less than in 2011.

Spammers and scammers always take advantage of holidays and hot news. As we approach the Christmas and New Year holidays, spammers now have more reasons and opportunities to advertise their goods and services in spam.

Before 2012, there were only two instances of cyber weapons being used – Stuxnet and Duqu. However, analysis of these two forced the IT community to dramatically expand the whole concept of what cyber warfare entails

The percentage of spam in email traffic was down 4.5 percentage points from September and averaged 68%.

This time the scammers where using some different methods trying to convince me that my compute where infected with some malware.

The percentage of spam in total mail traffic was down by 2.8 percentage points in the third quarter, coming in at 71.5%.

Old tricks become stale over time, and readers become alert and suspicious to them. So, the fraudsters have come up with a new variation of an old scam.

A Twitter phishing scheme is spreading its wings, as the previous couple of phishing domains used late last week have been taken down. Its operators have decided to put up multiple effective domains. So here are a couple of things to watch for.

The percentage of spam in email traffic grew by 2.3 percentage points from August and averaged 72.5%

Phishing is not exactly a ground-breaking technique. Quite the opposite, it seems like it has been around forever. This is an indicator of its effectiveness: we might think that it is unlikely that people would give away their banking credentials just because they are asked for them, but still there is a percentage who continue to become victims of one of the simplest fraud methods.

A Phishing campaign against Twitter is actively being exploited in the wild. The attackers use stolen twitter accounts to send direct messages containing a shortened URL redirecting to the phishing site.