According to Kaspersky Lab, τα προγράμματα που έχουν αναπτυχθεί με σκοπό την κλοπή στοιχείων connections, passwords and other confidential user data remain at the top of the list of the most common email-distributed malware.
The main findings of Kaspersky Lab experts in relation to spam activity in 2014 are the following:
- Its percentage spam on the total volume of e-mails post officey reached 66,8% in 2014, reduced by 2,8 percentage points compared to 2013.
- The reduced level of spam is explained by the fact that advertising of legal goods and services "migrates" to more efficient platforms.
- The main source of spam was the USA (16,7%).
- The 42,6% of phishing attacks targeted a global portal that incorporates many services that can be accessed through a single account.
- The country with the highest percentage of phishing attack users was Brazil, with 27,5% of all its users Kaspersky Lab faced an attack. Australia was in second place with 23,8%, while India and France were found close enough to 23% each.
- The three organizations whose brand name is most commonly used in phishing attacks were Yahoo! (23,3%), Facebook (10%), and Google (8,7%).
Mobile spam
Spam shipments that mimic messages sent from mobile devices are becoming more and more popular. Kaspersky Lab has detected such messages in many languages. In these missions, it imitates the iPad, iPhone, Samsung Galaxy, and other popular models. These messages had a common element, the very small (or non-existent) text, and signatures such as "Sent from my iPhone". Typically, they contain a link that leads to malicious attachments.
Fake notifications from mobile devices applications
Generally, bulk spam messages mimic notifications from various mobile applications such as Whats App and Viber. Users are familiar with syncing their apps across multiple platforms and syncing their contacts between apps and the various notifications that come from them. Thus, many mobile device owners do not spend much time on their emails, thinking that they will also receive them on their mobile messenger. But this is wrong, as the mobile apps are not connected to the user's email account, which proves that many of the messages in question are apparently fake.
"False bank alerts are among the most common types of malicious spam or phishing attacks. Recently, we've noticed remarkable changes to the structure of some phishing email. 2014, spammers began to complicate the design of counterfeit messages by adding more linkto the official sources and services of the agencies from which they claimed that false notices had been sent. Obviously, the attackers hope that an email with a few legitimate ones link it should be recognized as legitimate, both by users and by filters spam. At the same time, this email contains a single malicious link, which either redirects users to a phishing website or "downloads" a malicious file. said Maria Vergelis, Kaspersky Lab's Spam Analyst.
The three most spammed countries are the United States (16,7%), Russia (5,9%) and China (5,5%).
More information about the activity of the 2014 spam messages is available at Securelist.com of Kaspersky Lab.
