Apple's a tasty phishing target for scammers
Spam volumes took a usual seasonal drop in August, but phishing spiked, including a noticeable interest in hijacking Apple accounts.
Spam averaged 67.6 percent of all emails in August, down 3.6 percentage points compared to July, wrote Kaspersky Lab analysts Tatyana Shcherbakova and Maria Vergelis in a blog post. But 5.6 percent of those spam emails contained malicious attachments, an increase of 3.4 percentage points over a month prior.
The most prevalent malware program was "Trojan-Spy-html.Fraud.gen," which was in 8.1 percent of the emails containing malicious attachments. It's a very old piece of malware, first detected by Kaspersky Lab in 2004.
The malware is lodged inside a bogus HTML page that imitates a registration form for banks or payment services. It asks a victim for account information or personal information, which is then sent to a hacker.
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