Spam and Phishing

As Black Friday approaches, Kaspersky analyzes phishing and spam activity around major sales events, and reviews statistics on online shopping threats in 2023.

Gaming-related threat landscape in 2023: desktop and mobile malware disguised as Minecraft, Roblox and other popular games, and the most widespread phishing schemes.

Scammers are camouflaging phishing links with QR codes and distributing them through email.

Scammers are hacking websites powered by WordPress and placing phishing pages inside hidden directories. We share some statistics and tips on recognizing a hacked site.

Here is how email phishing scams targeting hot and cold crypto wallets, such as Trezor and Ledger, work.

This report contains statistics on cybersecurity threats to small and medium-sized businesses in 2023, and examples of cyberattacks on SMBs.

In this crimeware report, Kaspersky researchers provide insights into the Conti-based LockBit Green variant, ransomware samples for macOS, FreeBSD, etc. and phishing campaigns targeting organizations.

Kaspersky research on ChatGPT capabilities to tell a phishing link from a legitimate one by analyzing the URL, as well as extract target organization name.

Phishing bots and services on Telegram: how malicious actors use the messaging app to automate the process of generating phishing pages, and sell phishing kits and data.

This report shines a spotlight on the financial cyberthreat landscape in 2022. We look at phishing threats commonly encountered by users and companies, as well as the dynamics of various Windows and Android-based financial malware.

Attackers put phishing HTML files in IPFS thus cutting back on web hosting costs. IPFS is used in both mass phishing and targeted (spearphishing) campaigns.

Statistics on spam and phishing with the key trends in 2022: two-stage spear phishing, hijacking of social network and instant messaging accounts, import substitution, and survey phishing.

Phishing in social networks and messengers, marketplace fraud, exploitation of Google Forms and other services: we uncover what’s trending among attackers in 2022

We invited notable experts to share their insights and unbiased opinions on what we should expect from cybersecurity in the following year.

Mass spam mailing posing as customer email delivers the Agent Tesla stealer disguised as a document to corporate users.