Cloudflare Alerts: More Than 1 in 20 Emails Are Malicious

Malicious Email Statistics: Over 5% of global email traffic is malicious, with a spike to nearly 10% in November, highlighting the prevalence of harmful content in emails.

Threat Categories: The majority of malicious emails (52%) contained deceptive links, while identity deception accounted for 38%, indicating a rise in sophisticated phishing tactics.

Abused Domains: The ".christmas" domain was the most abused, with 92.7% of emails from this TLD being malicious, alongside other problematic domains like ".lol" and ".help."

Email as an Attack Vector: Email remains the primary method for cyberattacks, with a quarter of HTML attachments being malicious and a significant increase in malware-laden emails reported year-over-year.