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Spam in 2013 decreased by 2.5 percentage points compared last 2012. Kaspersky Lab experts said this is because more and more Internet users and subscribers are likely becoming aware of these spam materials.
However, Kaspersky Lab noticed that they see more fraudulent and malicious messages appearing and cybercriminals are adopting new tactics to steal confidential data, especially passwords and logins to banking systems.
The experts at Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content and threat management solutions, have summarized spammer activity for 2013:
- The proportion of spam in email flows was 69.6% in 2013, which is 2.5 percentage points lower than the previous year
- The percentage of emails with malicious attachments was 3.2% - 0.2 percentage points lower than in 2012
- 32.1% of phishing attacks targeted social networks
- The biggest sources of spam were China (23%) and the USA (18%)
- The proportion of spam in email traffic continues to fall. In the last three years, the share of unsolicited messages has fallen by 10.7 percentage points.