Malware and email messages are, unfortunately, the same as bread to butter or hands to gloves. The two go hand in hand. In fact, the connection is so acute that it’s been found that over 90% of all known malware is delivered into companies via email.

And there’s even worse news for IT managers and systems administrators. Here’s some of the main points from the Cofense State of Phishing Defence report:

  • The average user / employee doesn’t go two full days between receiving phishing messages
  • More than 50% of phishing messages have the word “invoice” in the subject line
  • 21% of malicious emails carry harmful attachments or phishing-related malware

Given that this data was gathered over 135 million simulations, 800,000 emails and 50,000 actual phishing campaigns targeting companies in 23 industries, the threat is obviously a real one.

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References:

https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/most-malware-arrives-via-email/d/d-id/1333023

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