The UAE was the fifth most-targeted country in the world for malicious spam mail-outs, according to to a new report.

Only Germany, Russia, the UK and Italy ranked higher on the list, which was revealed in Kaspersky Lab’s report Spam and Phishing in Q1 2018.

The report also showed there were more than 3.7 million attempts to obtain people’s personal data through fake social media pages in the first four months of this year.

The majority of the fake pages were Facebook accounts (60 per cent) followed by the Russian social media page Vkontakte (20.86 per cent).

Social network phishing is a form of cybercrime that involves the theft of personal data from a victim’s social network account.