Security News > 2022 > May > Emotet is the most common malware

The latest global HP Wolf Security Threat Insights Report - which provides analysis of real-world cybersecurity attacks - shows that Emotet has bolted up 36 places to become the most common malware family detected this quarter.

Signs indicate HTML smuggling on the rise: The median file size of HTML threats grew from 3KB to 12KB, suggesting a rise in the use of HTML smuggling, a technique where cybercriminals embed malware directly into HTML files to bypass email gateways and evade detection, before gaining access and stealing critical financial information.

HP Wolf Security tracks malware by opening risky tasks in isolated, micro-virtual Machines to protect the user and understand and capture the full attempted infection chain, mitigating threats that have slipped past other security tools.

Further key findings 9% of threats hadn't been seen before at the time they were isolated, with 14% of email malware isolated having bypassed at least one email gateway scanner.

69% of malware detected was delivered via email, while web downloads were responsible for 18%. The most common attachments used to deliver malware were documents, archives, executables, spreadsheets.

The most common attachments used to deliver malware were spreadsheets, executables and scripts, archives, and documents.

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