Spam levels are falling, but Kaspersky Lab says that malicious emails are increasingly becoming malicious and criminalised
One of the world’s leading security specialists has warned that
spam emails are still a significant threat to many modern PC users.
In spite of the quantity of spam emails continuing to decrease, Kaspersky Lab has said that its products prevented 22,890,956 attempts to infect users via emails with malicious attachments in just the month of March this year, twice the number of attempts reported in the previous month.
Malicious Intentions
The company also revealed that its latest Spam and Phishing Report found a significant increase in malicious spam emails in Q1 2016.
It found that the level of spam in email traffic has constantly been decreasing since 2012. In the first quarter for example, Kaspersky Lab registered 56.3 percent of spam in email flow. But this was 2.9 percent lower compared to the same period in 2015 when it was 59.2 percent.
But it also found that in the first quarter of this year, the quantity of emails with malicious attachments was 3.3 times higher than during the same period in 2015.
