Spam and phishing in 2023

Kaspersky’s 2023 spam and phishing report documents a large-scale increase in spam and phishing activity (45.6% of global email was spam; 709,590,011 phishing link attempts blocked; ~136 million malicious email attachment detections), describes numerous criminal campaigns and lures (gaming, refunds, crypto scams, instant-messaging attacks, BEC), identifies prevalent malware families distributed via email (Badur, Agensla, Badun, Noon, Taskun, Makoob, RedLine, Qbot, PikaBot), and highlights emerging TTPs including QR-code phishing, IPFS-hosted pages, LLM-assisted spear-phishing and list-linking (mail bombing), concluding with recommendations for vigilance and defensive measures.