Ukraine war: Spam and phishing surges
The fight for the freedom of Ukraine is also being waged on the Internet. The independent institute AV-TEST has registered a sharp increase in spam mails with phishing on its real-time portal AV-ATLAS. In one day, the increase was even 500 percent. “One day before the Russians invaded Ukraine, we registered a massive increase in spam emails. Two days earlier there was a significant increase in cyber attacks. Instead of a few tens of thousands of attempts, we registered hundreds of thousands for a short time,” says Maik Morgenstern, CEO of the cyber security institute AV-TEST. Lots of spam emails with...