{"id":4929,"date":"2015-06-16T06:19:50","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T10:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/?p=4929"},"modified":"2025-07-09T11:26:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T07:26:11","slug":"kaspersky-anti-spam-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/kaspersky-anti-spam-protection\/4929\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Spam: protecting your Inbox"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unwanted email has long stopped being just a source of advertising services or products. The time it takes to erase all spam messages from your inbox is not the only drawback of this threat.<\/p>\n

The problem of unwanted emails<\/h3>\n

It\u2019s not a secret that cybercriminals use spam as a channel to spread malware: malicious objects are, as a rule, attached to the message. Spam might also contain a link to malicious web resources serving\u00a0the ground of a phishing attack<\/a>\u00a0or are injected with a malicious code.<\/p>\n

That means, once in the inbox, such emails would become an open door for a banking Trojan and, as a result, become a means of\u00a0stealing money from online banking systems<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s rare to find someone who has never encountered any type of spam in their life. Some get regular mails from a dubious sender and some literally bathe in tons of such messages every day. A recent\u00a0research<\/a>\u00a0conducted by Kaspersky Lab in association with B2B International revealed that 64% of respondents consider spam one of the most serious threats.<\/p>\n

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One should take into consideration that cybercriminals constantly improve their social engineering methods, which are then used to elaborate\u00a0efficient phishing messages<\/a>. For instance, our experts have been registering the growth of phishing messages disguised as financial documents. Those could be: traffic fine notifications, bank transfer confirmations, alerts about overdue payments, money transfers, online orders, as well as claims, e-tickets, and the like.<\/p>\n

Among such there are faux messages from government agencies, online shops, booking services or airlines. Sometimes culprits take advantage of holidays or major events: for example, last year,\u00a0scammers used FIFA 2014 World Cup as a bait<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Several reasons why #spam is even worse than you probably think and 5 #tips on how to fight it<\/p>Tweet<\/a><\/blockquote>\n

Elaborate techniques are used to lure users into a trap: they create an urge to open the message, then open malicious attachments or click on a malicious link included into the body of the mail.<\/p>\n

Our experts estimate the share of spam in the email traffic as more than half of the total. With that in mind, and considering the level of skills the scammers employ,\u00a0technologies able to battle this threat are critical<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The share of spam in the email traffic (October 2014 \u2013 March 2015)<\/p><\/div>\n

Some tips to keep your Inbox clean<\/h3>\n

In order to withstand the endless flow of unsolicited emails, please follow our simple instructions:<\/p>\n