A new report from Kaspersky Lab reveals that its products blocked 73,066,751 attempts to attack users with malicious attachments during the third quarter of this year. This represents the largest amount of malicious spam since the beginning of 2014 and is a 37 percent increase compared to the previous quarter. The majority of the blocked attachments were ransomware trojan downloaders. "Spam is often just unwanted advertising, but it has a darker side too," says Daria Gudkova, acting head of content analysis and research at Kaspersky Lab. "Criminals use spam to distribute malware and exploit users' vulnerability, convincing them to hand… [Continue Reading]