Kaspersky Lab has provided a report on the activity of spammers in 2015. As it turned out, it was 55.28%, which is 11.48% less than in 2014. According to the company, 79% of spam comes from the United States, and the leader in the number of spam attacks became Russia (17.8%). At the same time the level of distributions deliberately malicious emails containing viruses or links to them, the leader Germany - 19%.
In addition, it is reported that in fact one third (34.33%) of phishing attacks last year were aimed at users sites of various financial institutions.
However, in general, fall spam levels have seen a sharp increase in the number of new top-level domains. It uses the New gTLD Program, under which the various communities and organizations provide a variety of domain names.
It is important to note that most of the malicious emails contain embedded virus and archived file or contain a link that downloaded the malware.
In general, security experts believe that the number of spam will only grow in the future and will be used to distribute both new and old, and forgotten by many tricks. Under the threat will be also mobile platforms. Related Products :
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