Romanian Facebook spammers cook up spam contests offering prizes. In February, about 12,000 Romanians were victims of a spam contest which promised a Samsung Galaxy S2. Other famous names used in false Facebook contests are Orange, Cosmote Shop and Vodafone.
The main viruses that infected computers in Romania in the first six months were Win32.Worm.Downadup, Trojan.AutorunInf and Trojan.Autorun.AET.
Although spam from Romania decreased significantly in the first half of the year, the volume of spam attacks received by Romanian internet users remained constant, at about 70% of overall emails.
Most of the spam emails targeting Romanian users advertize different products, from websites offering discounts to counterfeit objects.
Phishing attacks represent 0.9% of the total spam emails sent to Romania.
Phishing continued to make victims among Romanian bank card users even after banks introduced additional authentication mechanisms. The most targeted banks in the first six months were ING, Banca Transilvania and Unicredit Tiriac.