Leading e-mail malware worldwide in 2018
This statistic shows the most popular malware attachments in spam e-mails in 2018. Overall, .doc and .dot files accounted for 37 percent of blocked malicious file attachments.
Most commonly blocked malicious file attachments in e-mail in 2018
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Symantec. (February 28, 2019). Most commonly blocked malicious file attachments in e-mail in 2018 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved April 30, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/276641/top-spam-attachment-types-used-for-exploits/
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Most commonly blocked malicious file attachments in e-mail in 2018 [Graph], Symantec, February 28, 2019. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/276641/top-spam-attachment-types-used-for-exploits/
