Press Releases
29 August 2014Although it’s the height of summer and most businesses are in a natural lull, Kaspersky Lab’s experts reported a substantial increase in the amount of financial phishing in spam.
15 August 2014 Analysis of spam developments in Q2 2014 by Kaspersky Lab experts revealed a growth in unsolicited correspondence and new cybercrime tricks. The percentage of spam in all email traffic during the second quarter of the year came to 68.6 per cent, up...
2 July 2014May saw numerous mass mailings for schools and colleges offering distance learning.
29 May 2014Malicious attachments in April came disguised as e-greetings and notifications about faxes.
6 May 2014In the first quarter of 2014 spammers started imitating messages from mobile applications
25 April 2014Despite the increased share of phishing attacks on online stores, the most frequently attacked category of organization was still social networking sites (23.5%).
21 March 2014A lot of malicious attachments in February’s spam came in emails allegedly sent by women who wanted to make new friends in the run-up to Valentine's Day.
28 February 2014Top 3 SPAM Stories for January 2014
24 January 2014The experts at Kaspersky Lab have summarized spammer activity for 2013
20 December 2013Malware was primarily used to steal valuable data in November
23 August 2013The results of spam monitoring in July point to a lack of variety among malware targets — nearly every malicious program was after personal user data.
6 August 2013In Q2 the percentage of spam in total email traffic increased by 4.2% from the first quarter of 2013 and came to 70.7%
25 June 2013In May, the percentage of spam in email traffic was down 2.5 percentage points and averaged 69.7%
23 March 2013 After a lull of several months spammers stepped up their activity in February. According to Kaspersky Lab data, the proportion of spam in email traffic grew by nearly 13 percentage points and averaged 71% for the month, higher than the average for...
14 November 2012Kaspersky Lab analysts continue to observe a downward trend in the share of spam in total mail traffic
23 August 2012Against a continuing backdrop of falling spam levels, Kaspersky Lab noted a 50% rise in the number of emails containing malicious files
16 August 2012The proportion of spam in mail traffic continued to fall in Q2 2012, averaging 74.3%
27 July 2012The proportion of spam in email traffic continued its gradual decline in June, falling a further two percentage points compared to May and averaging 71.9% for the month
26 June 2012In May 2012 Kaspersky Lab saw another reduction in the amount of spam found in email traffic
19 May 2012Kaspersky Lab’s monthly report identified the proportion of spam in email traffic was up 2.2 percentage points in April 2012 compared to the previous month and averaged 77.2 per cent
17 May 2012Please see below the findings from Kaspersky Lab’s Q1 2012 spam report
24 April 2012In 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
3 March 201270% increase in spam with harmful attachments