Forty Years on and Cyber-Criminals Still Prefer Spamming Mails

The starting of a spam mail is now four decades past. Still we find cyber-criminals prefer spamming messages just as much for the distribution of their malicious software, execution of scams and deliverance of malevolent URLs.

MWR InfoSecurity along with F-Secure from their research find that cyber-criminals continue to dispatch spam mails although their tricks have evolved for better deliverance of results.

Thus according to Threat Intelligence Researcher Paivi Tynninen from F-Secure, spamming mails prove as yet again the only widely accepted way to serve malware. Out of the total spam messages the security company has observed over current year's spring, 23% account for electronic mails containing malware-laced attachments, 31% account to have web-links taking onto harmful sites, and 46% account for dating scams, Paivi says.

Paivi continues that with spam being a key infection medium so far, over recent years, it has acquired further preference vis-à-vis other mediums since computers are now more secured from vulnerabilities and exploits in software. Businessworld.in posted this on the Web dated August 1, 2018.

To obtain more effective results cyber-crooks even now depend on the ruse of dispatching massive counts of electronic mails for compromising just small numbers of people at a time. The ruse helps them acquire admission into the devices and personal accounts of those people. Evidently, the rates of clicking on bulk e-mails have risen to 14.2% during 2018 from 13.4% in July-December 2017, indicating that the mode of assault continues to work pretty well.

There have been some specific tactics which MWR identified which increase the potency of spam campaigns, notably making e-mail seem as arriving from certain familiar source, with certain caption suggesting urgency rather than directly stating so. The described fresh tactics are implemented for deceiving end-users even those knowing about the perils associated with clicking on uninvited attachments.

E-mails that assert as arriving from any familiar person increase a recipient's probability of viewing them by 12%. Although the latest attack techniques are potentially more complex, online crooks continue to employ their tried and tested technique of spewing junk electronic mails since they're sure of its efficacy.

» SPAMfighter News - 8/8/2018