Kaspersky Lab has presented its spam report for June 2011 and immediately captured headlines with its claim that phishing attacks on popular social networks Facebook and Habbo are intensifying.
“The amount of phishing emails remained unchanged and accounted for 0.02% of all mail traffic,” says Kaspersky in its report. “However, there was a considerable increase in the amount of phishing attacks on social networks Habbo and Facebook, increasing by 6.25 and 4.07 percentage points respectively, pushing the sites up to third and fourth places in the list of organizations attacked most. The experts at Kaspersky Lab also predict a surge in spam linked to Google+ after recent signs that spammers have begun exploiting the growing interest in the new social network.”
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