Spam and phishing in 2018

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CONTENTS:

• Numbers of the year
  
• Global events and spam
  
• GDPR
  
• 2018 FIFA World Cup
  
• New iPhone launch
  
• Malware and the corporate sector
  
• New distribution channels
  
• Cryptocurrencies and spam
  
• Phishing
  
• Cryptocurrency
  
• Lotteries and surveys
  
• Universities
  
• Taxes
  
• HTTPS
  
• Sales
  
• Statistics: spam
  
• Proportion of spam in email traffic
  
• Sources of spam by country
  
• Spam email size
  
• Malicious attachments in email
  
• Malware families
  
• Countries targeted by malicious mailshots
  
• Statistics: phishing
  
• Organizations under attack
  
• Rating of categories of organizations attacked by phishers
  
• Top 3 organizations under attack from phishers
  
• Attack geography
  
• Countries by share of attacked users
  
• Top 10 countries by share of attacked users
  
• Conclusion
  

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