Spam can be harmless, intrusive ads from business owners who haven’t figured out how to reach potential customers differently, but often unsolicited mass mailings are used by attackers. Vladimir Zykov, Director of the Professional Association of Users of Social Networks and Messengers (APPSIM), told socialbites.ca about this.
The expert notes that today, under the guise of intrusive advertising, scammers are increasingly hiding attempts to carry out actions aimed at stealing money and personal data.
Attackers often send spam emails with catchy titles, impersonate popular email services, or send content intended to give the user the impression that they are already in correspondence with the sender. The task is to disguise malware as applications and content and force the potential victim to download malware,” says Vladimir Zykov.
Therefore, expert notes note that it will not be superfluous to carefully approach what you download on the network and what links you follow.
Popular App Store and Google Play app stores, YouTube video hosting, streaming services, and free VPN apps are also becoming sources where you’re most likely to encounter cloaked malware, according to Vladimir Zykov.
“Don’t let your guard down. Read other users’ reviews carefully before clicking on a suspicious link or downloading an app,” continues the expert.
Zykov also notes that spam calls from phone scammers still “do not lose their relevance.”
“Perhaps there is no Russian resident left who has not received calls from” bank security services “and” law enforcement agencies with a request to urgently transfer money to a “safe” account,” says the director of the Association of Professionals Users of Social Networks and Messengers.
The expert emphasizes that spam remains one of the main tools of intruders and therefore should be taken seriously.
May 3 is considered spam’s birthday. The first mass promotional emails without the consent of the mailbox owners took place in 1978 today. An electrical engineering company used this method.