Kaspersky Lab's spam report for July reveals Facebook took over eBay's second place ranking in the list of organisations most often attacked by phishers.
According to the security firm, Facebook accounted for 12.81% of phishing messages, more than three times as much as in the previous month. E-commerce business PayPal remained in first place, after being targeted by over half (53.48%) of all phishing attacks.
Kaspersky's spam report for July reveals the share of spam messages in mail traffic averaged 82.9%. Links to phishing sites were found in 0.03% of all e-mail traffic.
It added that the US and India maintained their leading positions as the most popular sources of spam, distributing 1.5 times as much spam compared to the previous month (17.2% and 9%, respectively).
The UK, Germany and Italy all made it into the top 10, making Europe the cause for the most notable change in the rankings this month. The total volume of spam originating from these combined territories increased by 50%, compared with the previous month.
Two newcomers to the top 20 were hi-tech Hong Kong (17th place, with 1.8%) and Taiwan (19th place, with 1.3% of spam).
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