Spam is still a key tool for hackers

Online criminals are keeping the faith with spam email campaigns, with more and more nuisance messages being sent today than ever before. Figures from IBM have shown that spam email remains a key tool for hackers, with the volume of such messages increasing 400 per cent in the past year. According to the 2017 IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Index, nearly half (44 percent) of all spam analyzed by the company contained a malicious attachment, demonstrating the threat level that spam still presents. Eighty-five percent of malicious spam attachments are delivering ransomware, locking data and charging users to unlock or recover their… [Continue Reading]