Look out! Fooled Spam 'Success ala Steve Jobs'

For the sake of grabbing the attention of potential victims , spammers exploit the name of the founder of Apple , Steve Jobs . Email spam is sent to invite the recipient to uncover the secrets of success of Steve Jobs , the contents of the email itself is an ad free training session .
Organizers promised that training in just 1.5 hours they were able to teach how to create a profitable business from our hobby . Steve Jobs used to draw attention to the training .
The phenomenon of spam ' Steve Jobs ' is detected Kaspersky Lab appeared since June 2013. Percentage of spam in email traffic in June rose 1.4 percentage points, with an average of 71.1 % . Malicious attachment was found in 1.8 % of all email , down 1 percentage point from the previous month .
In addition to training email that promises to reveal the secrets of success of Steve Jobs , in June Kaspersky Lab often find spam messages offering massive discounts for Apple devices .
For email looks genuine , the fraudsters include the company name in the ' From ' email address does not even have anything to do with Apple .
The perpetrators of this scam email stressed that the goods offered are very limited and potential victims need to act fast if you want to get the goods. Tricks like this are often used to encourage users to take decisions quickly and then click on the link and order the goods diskonan .
Another theme exploited by spammers is the offer of admission to a university in America as well as offer online education as you wish . Such emails often include links to pages containing the application form for the above institutions .
Interestingly , the site is not the same page address on each email and often freshly made on the day the letter was sent . Maybe this is how the perpetrator mass mailings collect personal user data .
" In June , spammers will continue to use the familiar tricks . Specifically, we noted several mass mailings advertise either conventional or electronic cigarette in which the perpetrator uses Google Translate service to process the spam link . Moreover , spammers will add a series of letters random and Google domain names in various languages ​​at the end of the link , " said Tatyana Shcherbakova , Senior Spam Analyst Kaspersky Lab .
In June , more than half the world's spam comes from China ( 24 % ) and the USA ( 17 % ) . North Korea is in third place with 14 % of all spam .
South Korea remains a major producer of spam sent to users in Europe ( 53.3 % ) , with a percentage increase of 9.6 percentage points . United States ( 4.6 % ) and Vietnam ( 3.7 % ) down to position 4 and 5 positions under Italy ( 6.7 % ) and Taiwan ( 5 % ) . Italy rose 3.9 percentage points in May compared to May in which Italy was in 7th place .
In June, the number of attacks targeting email and STIs increased dramatically , because of the summer holidays the number of users of e - mail and user programs such as ICQ , Jabber , Skype , and others increased . On the black market there is a huge demand for such accounts , which encourages phishers to steal login details of users and sell on the black market .

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