The amount of phishing attacks on social networking site Facebook increased significantly to push it to the top five most attacked organizations list. Report said that phishing attacks on Facebook increased by 4.07 percentage points in June. Attack on Social Network Habbo increased higher at 6.25 percentage points.
Experts at Kaspersky Lab predicted a surge in spam linked to Google+. Kaspersky Lab senior spam analyst Maria Namestnikova said, “We expect an increase in unsolicited emails exploiting the new Google social network. They will most likely contain both phishing links and malicious code.”
Major takeaways of the report:
- Volume of spam in mail traffic increased compared to May and averaged 83.3%.
- The amount of phishing emails accounted for 0.02% of mail traffic.
- PayPal and eBay were the top two organizations targeted by phishers in June, followed by Habbo and Facebook.
- Trojan-Spy.HTML.Fraud.gen occupies first place among the Top 10 malicious programs distributed via mail traffic.
- A third of all English-language spam was fraudulent and was either sent with the intention of extorting money from users or contained a malicious attachment or a link to malicious code.
Coming to India, the Emerging Superpower ranks high in SPAM and it might be due to the high volume of internet marketers in the nation. India is now ranked 2nd or 3rd in all social networking and bookmarking sites like Facebook, Twitter, StumbleUpon, Digg, Delicious etc. Some experts believe that most of the accounts in these networks are fake or duplicate. The accounts are used for marketing, and spamming is its outcome.
It has to be noted that phishing and malware attacks are not commonly generated from India, and India is as such not a serious threat to internet security.
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