In May the average proportion of spam e-mail traffic was about 80 percent
The company Kaspersky Labs released a monthly report with analysis activity spammers in the World network.
As reported in May, the proportion of garbage letters in the mail traffic amounted to an average of 79.1%. This is about 7% lower than the figure for April, when the proportion of spam exceeded 86%. The lowest percentages of garbage letters last month was observed on May 3 and amounted to 64.2%, the highest was recorded on May 17 and reached 90.4%. Malicious files and links to infected Web page containing 0.08% in electronic communications.
The company Kaspersky Labs notes that the distribution of spam case remained relatively stable compared with April. The most common users of the Network waste gets letter with the promotion of medicines and supplies for the health, educational services, as well as communications with proposals to buy cheap copies of expensive goods. In addition, last month increased slightly dispatches from advertising themselves spamming services.
According to a study in May rose sharply fishingovyh number of attacks. Links to fishingovye sites were 2.56% of all e-mails that twice the rates of April. The target fisherov, as the authors note the report, clients are banks, users of payment systems and popular postal services.
In the past month, spammers have continued experiments with new methods of organizing mass mailings. In particular, several attempts have been disseminating letters, which contained just two different advertising of products / services. In addition, Kaspersky Labs notes that the proportion of garbage in May letters with graphic attachments has increased by more than half compared with April and amounted to 29% of the total number of spam messages.
The full report Kaspersky Labs can be found here.