Kaspersky Lab The landscape of spam in September

According to her experts Kaspersky Lab, το Σεπτέμβριο, οι spammers ανέπτυξαν νεότερες εκδόσεις της απάτης “Nigerian Letter”, χρησιμοποιώντας ως θέμα τον ιό Έμπολα σε πολλά μηνύματα που στάλθηκαν μαζικά. Μεγάλο μέρος των μαζικών θεματικών αποστολών προωθούσε και διάφορες χρησιμοποιώντας δημοφιλείς ιστότοπους κοινωνικής δικτύωσης, καθώς οι spammers υπόσχονταν άμεση εισροή νέων πελατών και αύξηση εισοδημάτων.Kaspersky Lab

“Spammers usually try to take advantage of breaking news and current events. Scammers rarely miss an opportunity to use important events to woo her users and convince them that their fraudulent messages are real. So, after the first news about the Ebola virus in July, it was no surprise that as early as September, related mass email spams were launched, which took advantage of this news, to mislead recipients and extort money from them." commented Tatyana Shcherbakova, Senior Spam Analyst at Kaspersky Lab.

The landscape spam in numbers

According to the analysis of Kaspersky Lab, spam messages accounted on average 66,5% of all email in September, down 0,7 percentage points compared with August. The economic phishing accounted 36,97% of spam messages detected by the anti-phishing feature of Kaspersky Lab's solutions, increased 1,7 percentage points compared to the previous month.

Main sources of spam messages were the US (12%), Vietnam (9,3%) and Russia (5,8%), while most viruses were detected in Germany (9,11%), the UK (8,45%) and US (8,26%) to follow.

"Infected" spam

An example of the Ebola-based “Nigerian Letter” scam detected by Kaspersky Lab experts involved an email purporting to be from a wealthy Liberian lady who died of the virus. It contained a long story about the of them dying from the virus and for a local medical center that refused to help her. The supposed lady was willing to donate over $1,5 million to a recipient, who would donate that amount to charity.

The authors of another fraudulent mass spam email were posing as employees of the World Health Organization and were trying an unusual tactic to get attention. Specifically, they invited readers to a , στο όποιο θα πραγματοποιούνταν συζητήσεις για τον ιό Έμπολα και άλλα ιατρικά . They also offered a job to the recipient, with an annual salary of up to €350.000. The benefits also included a company car for him to assume the position of P.O.Y.'s representative. in the UK.

Among the most unusual spam email of the month, Kaspersky Lab encountered messages addressed to collectors. These messages provided English-speaking users with a free book on British Legacy from the First World War. Emails with the generous offer are supposed to come from SSAFA, a charity established to help British war veterans and their families.

The full version of Kaspersky Lab's Spam Scene Report in September is available on the site Securelist.com.

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