Scams & Phishing News Spam and phishing in 2025 discovered by Kaspersky

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https://securelist.com/spam-and-phishing-report-2025/118785/

Kaspersky spam and phishing report for 2025

The report contains statistics on spam and phishing in 2025, outlining the main trends: phishing and scam QR codes, ClickFix attacks, ChatGPT subscription lures and others.

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The year in figures​

• 99% of all emails sent worldwide and 43.27% of all emails sent in the Russian web segment were spam
• 50% of all spam emails were sent from Russia
• Kaspersky Mail Anti-Virus blocked 144,722,674 malicious email attachments
• Our Anti-Phishing system thwarted 554,002,207 attempts to follow phishing links

 

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Curious fact: Kaspersky’s founder is Russian… and it just so happens that half of the world’s spam also comes from Russia. Cosmic coincidence, or is the country simply exporting both vodka and junk mail?Beyond the irony, the report shows that spam and phishing aren’t just growing in volume—they’re getting more inventive: fake QR codes, ClickFix, phantom ChatGPT subscriptions. The takeaway is that digital security requires more than installing an antivirus; it’s about combining filters and, most importantly, a sharp critical eye to avoid falling for traps dressed up as innovation.