Spam and Phishing

In this edition of Lab Matters, Ryan Naraine interviews Kaspersky Lab CTO Nikolay Nikolay Grebennikov about malicious threats on mobile devices. Grebennikov talks about the taxonomy of threats and explains Kaspersky Lab’s vision for protecting data on smart phones.

Over the weekend, someone wrote to us complaining that Kaspersky Lab was sending spam

“Nigerian” spammers are extremely quick to react to the world’s hottest news stories

In Q3 of 2011, the share of spam in mail traffic was down 2.7 percentage points compared to the previous quarter, averaging 79.8%.

Here’s the latest of our malware calendar wallpapers.

The following statistics were compiled in September using data collected from computers running Kaspersky Lab products

Here’s the latest of our malware calendar wallpapers.

We recently noticed a mass mailing among the general flow of spam that at first glance looked just like the usual “forum” junk mail that appears on forums and bulletin boards, and which are sent as email notifications to users of those forums.

The long and eagerly awaited closed beta run of Diablo 3 has finally begun and Blizzard has sent out the first set of invitations to registered gamers all over the world.

After having handled thousands and thousands of phishing emails/webpages, they usually don’t actually reach me in any way or form. They are processed and added to our detection list in what is now a merely routine task. But recently I got a mail which was different because it appeared to be sent from my bank.

One of the main rules of IT security is to be very cautious when dealing with archived attachments in emails.

Today we came across a new, very sophisticated type of phishing.

After the Pushdo/Cutwail, Bredolab and Rustock botnets were taken offline, the geography of spam sources underwent some major changes.

Arbor Networks reseracher Jose Nazario talks about new DDoS bot families, most previously unidentified. Nazario provides a tour of recently discovered DDoS bots from around the world showing the proliferation of attack models, adoption of .Net, and new modular functionalities.

August is traditionally one of the busiest months for the information security industry.