Kaspersky spam report April 2011

points saw eBay fall 2 places to fourth in the Top ten rating of setups most frequently centered in phishing attacks. PayPal was the unchallenged leader of April's rating.

But the power of the attacks on this e-pay system has eased off barely, with a drop of six p.c. points compared with March 2011. Facebook and Santander moved up to second and third respectively, though the amount of attacks on these associations only increased a little compared to March. Spam in the spotlights As predicted at this time of the year, spammers exploited Easter to draw in more attention to their mass mailshots. The sheer range of Easter-themed spam messages was striking from special weight control offers to capsules for reinforcing sexual virility. Mother's Day, which is celebrated in several nations in early May, was mirrored in countless ads for flowers and gifts, while the marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton was accompanied with offers for keepsakes that incorporated actual reproductions of Kate's engagement band. Luckily, the surge in evil spam exploiting the "wedding of the year" theme that was expected by antivirus sellers failed to materialise. Sources of spam In Apr 2011, India and Brazil stayed the most well-liked sources of spam, accounting for 12.76% and 7.15% of the total volume of spam respectively. Russia continued its slide down the rating of most well liked spam sources, being overtaken by South Korea, whose contribution to world spam about doubled compared to March's figure. Spyware in mail traffic of certain interest in Apr was the appearance of Packed.Win32.Katusha.n and Trojan-Downloader.Win32.FraudLoad.hxv in the rating of antagonistic programs blocked by mail antivirus. Both malevolent programs have connections to fake AV : the previous is used to pack them while the second downloads them to users' PCs.

In Apr, malignant files were spotted in 3.65% of all mails, an increase of 0.43% points compared to the month before. The States, Russia and the United Kingdom continued to take the top 3 places in the list of nations where malicious software was noticed most often in mail traffic.

There had been an increase of 1.93% points recorded in the United States, but the figure for Russia reduced by 2.9 percent points matched against March. Spam rage Kaspersky further said the very first case of spam driving somebody nutty was reported in the United States in Apr. NY resident Jeremy Clancy, twenty-eight, was so irritated with the quantity of spam he was receiving in his mail box and on his social network pages that he made a decision to seek down his torturers. Over the period of a week he hunted down twenty-three folks whom he thought of distributing uncalled-for correspondence and in the evenings cut the web wires at their cribs. On his eighth outing he was apprehended by the police.

It was later divulged that Clancy was afflicted by a psychological disorder.