In May the average proportion of spam in mail traffic amounted to about 80 percent

The company ' Kaspersky Lab ' published a monthly report with the results of the activity of spammers on the World Wide Web.

As reported in May, the share of junk mail in mail traffic averaged 79.1%. It is about 7 % lower than in April, when the amount of spam exceeded 86%. The lowest percentages of junk emails in the past month, on May 3, and 64.2 %, the highest was recorded May 17 and reached 90.4%. Malicious files and links to infected web pages contained in 0.08 % of all emails.

The company ' Kaspersky Lab ' notes that the thematic distribution of spam remained relatively stable compared to April. Most of all Internet users come across junk mail advertising of medicines and products for health, education services, as well as messages with offers to buy cheap copies of expensive goods. In addition, last month increased slightly the number of mailings with advertising spam services themselves.

According to a study in May, a sharp rise in phishing attacks. Links to phishing sites were found in 2.56% of all e-mails, which is two times higher than in April. Targets of phishers, as the authors of the report are bank customers, users of payment systems and popular e-mail services.

Last month, spammers have continued to experiment with new methods of organizing mass mailings. In particular, several attempts have been fixed distribution of letters, which contained just two different advertising products / services. In addition, ' Kaspersky Lab ' notes that in May, the share of junk mail with image attachments more than doubled compared with April and amounted to 29% of the total number of spam messages.

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