November 2, 2021 By Robert Lemos
Spam volume declined slightly in the third quarter, but attackers sent almost 36 million malicious e-mail attachments, up 5% from the previous quarter, one security firm says.
Attackers continue to use phishing and spam as a primary way to steal credentials from unwary users, with e-mails carrying links to more than 5.6 million phishing sites and laden with 36 million malware attachments, new data shows.
Software security firm Kaspersky's new quarterly review of spam and phishing data found that the most popular subjects in the e-mails included a variety of sports — including the delayed Euro 2020 soccer tournament and the Tokyo Olympics — and video games, with popular schemes including support scams, which aim to get victims to call with credit-card information, and COVID-19 scams, which aim to collect sensitive information on victims.
