Spam News

15 May   Spam News

Spam in Q1 2012: A Marathon of Holidays

The first quarter of the year was littered with holidays and, of course, spammers tried to make the most of it. Be it Valentine’s Day, International Women’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day or Easter – it seems there’s no holiday that won’t get a spammer working overtime

19 Apr   Spam News

Spam in March 2012: Crusade Against Spammers Yields Results

In March Kaspersky Lab experts, together with their colleagues from other organizations specializing in IT security, succeeded in closing down the latest version of the notorious Hlux/Kelihos botnet

20 Mar   Spam News

Spam in February 2012: Spammers Have Holidays Too

In February, spammers continued with their January mass-mailings devoted to St Valentine’s Day. The numbers of unsolicited valentines peaked on February 12 at 0.2% of all spam messages

01 Mar   Spam News

Spam in 2011: less is more dangerous

The trend of recent years continued in 2011, with a further reduction in the amount of spam in email traffic

24 Feb   Spam News

Spam in January 2012: Love, Politics and Sport

The main topics exploited in spam mailings in January were Valentine’s Day, elections in Russia and the USA as well as the upcoming London Olympics

12 Jan   Spam News

Spam in December 2011: ‘Conditional Coupons’ and Increasingly Malicious Mass Mailings

Kaspersky Lab announces the publication of its spam report for December 2011. The last month of the year was predictably quiet – compared to November the share of spam in email traffic fell 4.4 percentage points and averaged 76.2% for the month

20 Dec   Spam News

Spam in November 2011: Phishing Attacks on Habbo Increase Tenfold

Online scammers have long taken an interest in spam mailings with fake notifications imitating those sent out by social networking sites. At the same time, social network accounts have become permanent targets for phishers. In November, spammers focused on Flickr, Twitter and LinkedIn while phishers showed a preference for Habbo

25 Nov   Spam News

Kaspersky Lab has published its review of spammer activity in October 2011

Kaspersky Lab has published its review of spammer activity in October 2011. This month witnessed mass mailings exploiting high-profile events, a shift in phishing targets and spam sources were spread more evenly over more countries

03 Nov   Spam News

20-Fold Increase in Fraudulent Spam in Q3 2011

Kaspersky Lab announces the publication of its quarterly spam report for Q3 2011.

18 Oct   Spam News

Spam in September: Correspondence with a Killer

Kaspersky Lab presents its spam report for September 2011. The volume of spam in mail traffic decreased slightly compared to August and averaged 78.5%