New research shows that up to a half of all HTML email attachments are malicious, and not just because of a few massive campaigns. Researchers warn that attackers are relying more on malicious HTML ...

Malicious attachments continue to be a top threat vector in the cybercriminal world, even as public awareness increases and tech companies amp up their defenses. While attachment threat vectors are ...

Email scams and viruses are nothing new—threats like phishing emails and malware have been around since the days when services like AOL still dominated the internet and email landscape. However, while ...

The share of HTML attachments assessed to be malicious has more than doubled, from 21% last May to nearly 46% in March 2023, according to Barracuda. The security vendor warned that, while Hypertext ...

The security industry has been highlighting the cybercriminal misuse of HTML for years — and evidence suggests it remains a successful and popular attack tool. Last year we reported that around one-in ...

HTML files remain one of the most popular attachments used in phishing attacks for the first four months of 2022, showing that the technique remains effective against antispam engines and works well ...

Email is part of the lifeblood of governmental operations, and attachments are a central part of that flow. But skillful bad actors can hide malicious payloads in what look like innocuous documents, ...

Security researchers from SquareX have discovered what they describe as critical flaws in the attachment scanning process of major email service providers, including Apple, Google, Microsoft, and ...

Defenses against the types of attacks that are becoming more prevalent include better filtering at the gateway and disabling Javascript. “Spammers have suddenly cranked up the use of malicious HTML ...

How to protect your organization and users against malicious emails Your email has been sent Cybercriminals are increasingly using email as an easy and effective way to infect computers with malware ...

A bug in WhatsApp for Windows can be exploited to execute malicious code by anyone crafty enough to persuade a user to open a rigged attachment - and, to be fair, it doesn't take much craft to pull ...

Microsoft says its advanced machine learning threat detection models have helped its staff detect multiple malicious spam (malspam) campaigns distributing disk image files infected with malware. The ...