This time of the year, spam campaigns are increasingly adopting holiday themes to improve their malware distribution rate and steal users’ banking information or to trick victims into accessing fake online stores, security researchers warn.
The growth is mainly fueled by an intensified online shopping activity, which clearly inspires cyber-criminals to launch various social engineering attacks, including phishing and drive-by download campaigns. For the delivery of their malicious payloads, the cyber-criminals use spam emails, one of the oldest and most used such tactics.
