Kaspersky Lab see a new trend among spammers in the second quarter of 2011. Spam began to take advantage of cloud services.
It was announced by the antivirus company Kaspersky Labs said in a statement received. Services in the cloud in question, for example, using the documents in Google Docs.
The documents in Google Docs or page is believed to public service can make a candidate more innocent victims. The document, then the victim will be redirected to a page of advertising or a phishing site. Another trend is Kaspersky, spam begins to lose its global character. That is, spammers are no longer spreading mass spam everyone.
Now, many spammers that according to Kaspersky begin selecting specific goals and carefully. The action is also known as “spear phishing” this could be more dangerous.
This is due, “spear phishing” action after cyber criminals known about the target. This may include your name, the company’s work and other things. Information can be obtained Darilan like Facebook or any other means.
The data is used to make potential victims off guard, which makes spam a specific action, ranging from advertising to fraud. Thus, although the victim may be less, this action could have a better success rate.
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