Phishers Exploit Entertainment And Government Services
Kaspersky's 2025 threat report finds that 99% of global email traffic and 43.27% within the Russian web segment were spam, with 50% of spam originating from Russia. The report documents rising entertainment-themed phishing—fake streaming, ticketing, playlist-migration pages—and extensive government-service impersonations harvesting national IDs and charging bogus processing fees. These campaigns resulted in hundreds of millions of blocked malicious attachments and phishing attempts, raising credential and identity-theft risks.
Key Points
- 1Document rising entertainment-themed phishing using fake streaming, ticketing, and playlist-migration pages
- 2Highlight government-service impersonations harvesting CPF and other national IDs, enabling identity theft
- 3Advise practitioners to bolster phishing detection, credential protection, and verification of payment portals
Scoring Rationale
High practical value and industry scope, backed by authoritative reporting, but limited novelty beyond established phishing trends.
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