- The United States generates 57% of global spam, the vipre analysis of e-mails of 1.45B
- The expansion of American data centers makes it more difficult to apply spam and threats
- Cybercriminals move to a simple and man -focused phishing using PDF and SVG
A new report said the United States was now the largest source of spam email in the world.
Report on threats of threats by email from the first quarter of vipre.
Vipre analyzed 1.45 billion emails for its report, focusing on the geolocation of the original IP address found in messaging headers, rather than domain extensions like .com.
A problem that will get worse
Although there is no unique cause, the magnitude of the infrastructure of the data center in the United States makes it difficult to apply spam regulations and leads to a larger number of entry points for spam emails to spread.
With even more data centers built across the United States, this is a problem that will only get worse in the years to come.
The report notes that spam analyzed, 67% were classified as malicious, linked to phishing or malicious software.
Recall phishing increases quickly, representing nearly one in five phishing attempt. Cybercriminals also seem to opt for simpler and man -oriented methods on more complex and technical methods.
SVG attachments have turned out to be climbing in popularity among the attackers, second in second place just behind the PDFs, as they can be used to encourage users to visit malicious sites.
The manufacturing sector is the most important target for e-mail attacks, with retail and sharing second place.
Vipre says that the landscape of malware has recently changed, the family of malware type carriers for spokeswoman who took first place before the second family of malware (Lumma) the largest of three. Stealc, Agentsla and Redline followed behind.
“There is a clear change in the preference of cybercriminals towards tactics with low technology, with high impact and centered on human.
“With the cybercriminals mastering the art of human deception and the development of phishing attacks which bypass conventional defenses, e-mail security in turn requires an approach that arms the own actions of cybercriminals and uses their models to create a unique response to the test of the future,” he added.
