Spammers Started to Exploit the World Cup Event
February 10th, 2011 | Published in Technology News
The topic of natural disaster that recently occurred in Haiti and Chile were soft targets for cyber criminals. They managed to get trapped victims to open a spam message in the Inbox. At the moment the world was back trying to recover from the downturn due to natural disasters and frequency of natural disasters that has begun to decline, the cyber criminals began to lose sense to create a new trap. However, recently they started to get fresh air. World Cup has started!
Football fans should immediately strengthen the defenses of their computer when surfing the Internet. CHIP fellow at Symantec estimates that if the World Cup, which began on June 11, 2010 became one of the event becomes the target of most mal ware and spam makers this year.
You should avoid subjects like this: The type of fake lottery e-mail (normally written with the title “Free Tickets to FIFA World Cup”), making an ATM card or counterfeit credit cards in South Africa, infected websites which trade facilitates collection of stickers or cards , and infected e-mail attachment that contains information about the World Cup. To get more information to stay safe surfing and discussing with fellow lovers of football, you can visit www.2010netthreat.com for the latest information about the ratings scam, spam, phishing, and malicious programs.
Message and a phishing scam in March, reaching 17% of all spam, down 2% from February. After the tragic earthquake in Haiti and Chile, there is no longer a new natural disaster that can be exploited by spammers. Spammers are now more focused on seasonal events and events listed in the calendar like Easter holidays to send spam messages.
Based on the size of the spam file, there was a significant increase in spam messages which have a file size of 5kb and 10kB (increased by more than 10%), associated with an increase in spam attachment. Overall, spam accounted for 89.34% of the overall message in March, compared with 89.99% in February.