Spam stories - Page 2

Snake Keylogger has re-emerged on the threat landscape with a brand new malspam campaign targeting IT decision-makers.

There are three main factors which cause the bulk of spam emails targeting APAC: population, high adoption of e-services, and pandemic lockdowns.

Employees who receive 30-60 external emails per day could be wasting 11 hours every year looking through and identifying spam messages.

Spam enforcement in New Zealand has decreased significantly, prompting calls for a review of the Unsolicited Electronic Messages Act (UEMA).

NZ consumers shift towards spending on experiences after lockdown, with the average Kiwi saving $3,000, says Mastercard research.

LinkedIn has experienced another huge data scape, the third in four months, with 600 million profiles for sale online.

Sophos presents a 20-year retrospective of cyber-threats, from the Worm Era to the Monetisation Era and the current Ransomware Era.

As employees travel back and forth between home and the workplace, are they walking through the door with cyber threats sitting on their devices?.

Malware and spam related to COVID-19 are increasing globally, with the US identified as the top location, according to Trend Micro.

Significantly, spam messages account for more than half of 295 billion in 2019, making 55% of global email traffic in this year, the company states.

A worldwide spate of spam emails claiming there is a bomb in the recipient’s building is almost certainly a hoax.

Every day cybercriminals come up with a wide variety of phishing tactics with the intent of scamming innocent users.

The probability of a recipient opening an email increases 12% if the email claims to come from a known individual.

Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) is vowing to better protect consumers from spam and telemarketing messages.

Incumbent email security systems are missing thousands of malware-containing emails, putting users at risk, says Mimecast survey.

One of the world’s largest spam botnets is back in action and this time it is spreading a Trojan downloader that can deliver nasty malware surprises.

The GandCrab ransomware has been making headlines recently for being one of the few malware strains that developers update in real time.

Cryptomining might just be one of the biggest trends in cybercrime this year, and New Zealand is not immune from its reach.

Cryptomining is becoming a popular revenue stream for cybercriminals as the ransomware market becomes too crowded.

Email serves as an organisations’ communicative lifeblood, thus making it the most critical vector for an assortment of threats.