Kaspersky: Hot news hidden in the murderous

The internet era, the spread of news and influence of the growing, especially hot news often in the first time by netizens a large number of clicks and broadcast, but many netizens may have overlooked, some of the content of the incidental malicious program was accidentally clicked, their security has been threatened.

In recent days, Kaspersky Labs released the October 2011 Spam Activity report, which shows a large number of spam messages spread through popular news events, and the target of phishing attacks has changed.

For example, after the death of Apple founder Steve Jobs, there was a lot of junk mail about his death, most of which contained malicious code. After the death of Libya's former leader, Muammar Gaddafi, October 20, spammers also responded quickly, including some classic "Nigerian" scams in their spam messages. Some Internet users will receive e-mails claiming to be Gaddafi's "relatives" or "cronies" who claim to have inherited Gaddafi's "valuable assets" in their emails. All messages indicate that you want to share this wealth with the recipient. In addition, the October spam message contains some Christmas or New Year theme messages, most of which include holiday gift ads or holiday travel ads.

It is clear that the global economic problems have a direct impact on internet fishing behavior. The target of phishing attacks is to choose real property rather than virtual capital or property. So, during the October, the banks and financial services were more likely to be hit by phishing attacks, while social networks and online gaming were less interested in phishing than before.

Kaspersky remind the vast number of users, in the focus on news events or online banking, to improve security awareness, timely resolution with malicious program content, install Kaspersky Security software, protect the computer from threats.