Phishing attack attempts pinged users’ computers more than 246 million times in 2017, Kaspersky Lab report says. The jump was higher than the 4.5% year-on-year increase in attempted phishing attacks in 2016. Spam, meanwhile, declined a slight 1.68 percentage points to an average of 56.6% of email traffic in 2017. The US topped the list of the most popular sources of spam, accounting for 13.2% of the nefarious emails generated.”]