Spam and phishing in Q1 2019

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Contents

Quarterly highlights
Valentine’s Day
New Apple products
Fake technical support
New Instagram “features”
Mailshot phishing
Financial spam through the ACH system
“Dream job” offers from spammers
Ransomware and cryptocurrency
Malicious attacks on the corporate sector
Attacks on the banking sector
Statistics: spam
Proportion of spam in mail traffic
Sources of spam by country
Spam email size
Malicious attachments: malware families
Countries targeted by malicious mailshots
Statistics: phishing
Attack geography
Organizations under attack
Conclusion

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