Study: Ways pirates phishing e-mail has evolved in 2013

Explained the company 's security solutions , the number of phishing messages that are sent via e-mail has dropped significantly in 2013 , a decline that reflects the evolution of mechanisms for pirates to target victims.

The company " Websense " (WebSense) in its security study that the rate of phishing has become a 0.5 percent of the total e-mail messages in 2013 , compared with 1.12 percent in the last year .

The company added that hackers tend now to set specific targets for the bombs to forward messages instead of sending large numbers of messages to a large group of
users.

The " Websense " that pirates are currently using social networking sites and strategies of social engineering to accurately identify their goals , and then send letters booby-trapped draws their attention and achieved the highest success rates in the hunted .

On his part, said Carl Leonard , security research director in " Websense " , the pirates succeeded in 2013 to develop ways to formulate topics for phishing messages beyond recognition by most of the security systems used various e-mail services .

The more topics used in phishing messages this year , calls are participating in " LinkedIn " , where the security company explained that the pirates are sending messages deceptive calls the recipient to register for the social network , only those messages that contain links bomb .

The messages came " delivery failure e-mail message " in the second of deceptive messages bombs used by pirates in 2013 phishing e-mail , followed by messages that are to convince the recipient as coming from one of the banks with which it deals .

It is noteworthy that China replaced , according to a study " Websense " Security , ranked first in the list of countries hosting links bombs and malware , followed by the United States and Germany , Britain and Canada .