Spam and Phishing

Here is how email phishing scams targeting hot and cold crypto wallets, such as Trezor and Ledger, work.

This report contains statistics on cybersecurity threats to small and medium-sized businesses in 2023, and examples of cyberattacks on SMBs.

In this crimeware report, Kaspersky researchers provide insights into the Conti-based LockBit Green variant, ransomware samples for macOS, FreeBSD, etc. and phishing campaigns targeting organizations.

Kaspersky research on ChatGPT capabilities to tell a phishing link from a legitimate one by analyzing the URL, as well as extract target organization name.

Phishing bots and services on Telegram: how malicious actors use the messaging app to automate the process of generating phishing pages, and sell phishing kits and data.

This report shines a spotlight on the financial cyberthreat landscape in 2022. We look at phishing threats commonly encountered by users and companies, as well as the dynamics of various Windows and Android-based financial malware.

Attackers put phishing HTML files in IPFS thus cutting back on web hosting costs. IPFS is used in both mass phishing and targeted (spearphishing) campaigns.

Statistics on spam and phishing with the key trends in 2022: two-stage spear phishing, hijacking of social network and instant messaging accounts, import substitution, and survey phishing.

Phishing in social networks and messengers, marketplace fraud, exploitation of Google Forms and other services: we uncover what’s trending among attackers in 2022

We invited notable experts to share their insights and unbiased opinions on what we should expect from cybersecurity in the following year.

Mass spam mailing posing as customer email delivers the Agent Tesla stealer disguised as a document to corporate users.

Text-based fraud (419 scams, vishing, extortion, etc.) is still alive and well. Here, we describe cybercriminal techniques and present statistics.

The Verizon 2022 Data Breach Investigations Report is out, where Kaspersky collaborated as a contributor. The report provides interesting analysis of a full amount of global incident data.

In this article we review phishing HTML attachments, explaining common tricks the attackers use, and give statistics on HTML attachments detected by Kaspersky solutions.

What are phishing kits (phishkits), what do they include, who uses them, and where are they sold? A report and statistics on phishing kits.