Spam and Phishing

Spammers once again made several attempts to modernize the technology used in creating graphical attachments in spam emails (“image spam”) during the first six months of 2007

This is the first report in a series from Kaspersky Lab tracking the evolution of malicious websites and malware delivered via the web

Spammers have brought another instrument into their orchestra of tricks – MP3 audio files.

Netsky.q is once again in first place. This worm has finally achieved notoriety as the most widespread malicious program in the history of the Internet.

September’s Online Top Twenty was a little unusual in terms of the movement of the entries.

It seemed as though we had almost completely got rid of the Rays and Brontok worms

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Spammers are continuing to experiment with new ways of delivering graphics files to users. These include PDF attachments which contain spam

The spam situation is currently stable. Spam accounts for 70% – 80% of all email traffic. The monthly low was recorded on June 6 at 69.9%, and the monthly high was 78.4% on June 29

Money mule recruitment

The activity of the botnet that was created in May via the Agent.bqs Trojan was only reaching its “design capacity” in June; by July it was in full swing

After a short break, Trojan Dialers are again at the top of the rankings based on the results of our July online scanner activity

The article compares two different methods for protecting confidential data – the traditional one, and an alternative approach based on analyzing application activity.

May saw a series of attacks against the Yandex.Money payment system.

Nkem Owoh, who played a 419 scammer in the Nigerian comedy The Master, was among 111 alleged 419 scammers arrested in The Netherlands recently.