Spam and phishing in 2018

Posted on 13 March 2019

From securelist.com

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source: www.adp.com/about-adp/data-security/client-resources/phishing.aspx

Numbers of the year

  • The share of spam in mail traffic was 52.48%, which is 4.15 p.p. less than in 2017.
  • The biggest source of spam this year was China (11.69%).
  • 74.15% of spam emails were less than 2 KB in size.
  • Malicious spam was detected most commonly with the Win32.CVE-2017-11882 verdict.
  • The Anti-Phishing system was triggered 482,465,211 times.
  • 18.32% of unique users encountered phishing.

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