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Recent Statistics & Reports

PDFs remain the preferred vehicle for delivering malicious attachments in phishing, at 64%.

8/4/2025
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A significant portion of BEC targets are Danish, at 38%.

8/4/2025
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Financial lures are the number one ploy in phishing emails, representing 35% of samples.

8/4/2025
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Swedish language use in BEC scams is 3.8%.

8/4/2025
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Account verification and updates account for 20% of approaches in phishing emails.

8/4/2025
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Among the unidentifiable phishing kits used by phishing sites, other generic kits account for 5%.

8/4/2025
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For Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks, English-speaking executives remain the most targeted at 42%.

8/4/2025
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Norwegian language use in BEC scams is 1.5%.

8/4/2025
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Package delivery messages account for 5% in phishing emails.

8/4/2025
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Lumma Stealer is the most encountered malware family found in the wild during Q2 and is often delivered via malicious .docx, .html, or .pdf attachments, or through phishing links hosted on compromised or legitimate-looking cloud services such as OneDrive, and Google Drive.

8/4/2025
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Regarding phishing links, URL redirection was the most employed tactic (51%), followed by compromised websites (19%) and newly created domains (7%).

1/1/2025

The manufacturing sector (32%) was the most targeted industry sector for email-based attacks.

1/1/2025

74% of the time, CEOs and executives were the roles that were compromised.

1/1/2025

Over nine out of 10 emails were categorised as spam by VIPRE.

1/1/2025

The use of QR codes for phishing peaked at 12% in Q4 of 2024.

1/1/2025

Threat actors leveraged 'impersonation' as a tactic in an average of 88% of all BEC cases.

1/1/2025

Of the never-seen-before spam emails, 37% fell into the commercial, 32% into the scam, and 21% into the phishing categories of spam.

1/1/2025

VIPRE processed 7.2 billion emails globally, of which 858 million were spam.

1/1/2025

Phishing tactics with links were most popular (70%), followed by attachments (25%) and QR codes (5%).

1/1/2025

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