Routinely, research exposes the rapidly changing landscape of email-based threats, and the innovative tactics as malicious actors relentlessly shift tactics, probing for vulnerabilities of humans and software with cunning, innovative attacks.
The latest analysis of over 1.8 billion emails in Q1 of this year reveals that the US is the top source of spam emails, followed by the U.K., Ireland, and Japan. This is a change from the corresponding period in 2023 when aside from the US, Germany and Turkey were the dominant sources of spam emails. Furthermore, it appears that the countries sourcing the spam are also the same as their targets. The US, UK, and Canada are the top three countries most subjected to email-based attacks. The reasons could be socioeconomic factors or merely that cybercriminals are changing tack as vigilant enterprises keep pace with their territory-centric tricks.
