Security News > 2020 > September > A look at the top threats inside malicious emails

According to the data, in H1 2020, 43 percent of the malicious mails on the radars of Group-IB Threat Detection System had attachments with spyware or links leading to their downloading.

Ransomware, which in the second half of 2019 hid in every second malicious email, almost disappeared from the mailboxes in the first six months of this year with a share of less than 1 percent.

Almost 70 percent of malicious files were delivered to the victim's computer with the help of archives, another 18% percent of malicious files were masked as office documents, while 14% more were disguised as executable files and scripts.

"The beginning of this year was marked by changes in the top of urgent threats that are hiding in malicious emails," comments CERT-GIB deputy head Yaroslav Kargalev.

"Ransomware operators have focused on targeted attacks, choosing large victims with a higher payment capacity. The precise elaboration of these separate attacks affected the ransomware share in the top threats distributed via email en masse."

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