JavaScript attachments led to an explosion of malicious messagevolume, which was up 230% quarter over quarter, according to theSunnyvale, Calif.-based security firm Proofpoint's analysis of Q22016 threats and trends.

In Proofpoint's Quarterly Threat Summary, researchers also revealed the volumeof malicious JavaScript attachments reached levels that have neverbeen seen before, peaking at hundreds of millions of messages a dayand representing a threat that outsmarts most security teams andmanual processes by far.

In addition, ransomware is back in a big way with new variants andtechniques emerging regularly. Highly personalized campaigns arebeing deployed at scales of tens to hundreds of thousands ofmessages compared to the much smaller targeted campaigns usedpreviously.

Other findings from Proofpoint's report included thefollowing:

• Among the email attacks that used malicious documentattachments, 69% featured the new Locky ransomware in Q2, versus24% in Q1.
• Eighty percent of consumers experienced at least one businessemail compromising phishing attack in the last month. Attackerschanged their lures based on seasonal events such as taxreporting.
• Exploit kits compromised as many as 10 million Androiddevices.
• Ninety-eight percent of mobile malware is still associated withthe Android platform.
• Social media phishing attempts rose by 150%.

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