Kaspersky has generated a report which says that India is responsible for 3.4% of global spam distribution. A lot of malicious attachments in February’s spam came in emails allegedly sent by women who wanted to make new friends in the run-up to the Valentine's Day. Some attackers went even further by trying to hook recipients with the promise of explicit photos in archives attached to messages. There were also more conventional malicious mass mailings imitating fake notifications from popular social networking sites, including Facebook.
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Altaf Halde, Managing Director, Kaspersky Lab - South Asia, said, "Spammers are becoming more intelligent in masking their messages under the garb of offering something genuine to the recipients - be it Valentine’s day discount or news about Ukraine, etc. And once unsuspecting users have clicked or downloaded the email attachment, Trojans are downloaded without the user’s knowledge, which are capable of stealing data or even holding the data at ransom (encrypting the data and demanding money to decrypt the data, like CryptoLocker)."
Yet another malicious program imitated fake notifications from major social networking sites. Messages allegedly sent on behalf of Facebook informed recipients that a lot had happened on friends’ news feeds since they last visited the site and they were prompted to open the attached archive to find out more. The archive contained the backdoor from the aforementioned Andromeda family.
