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August 2025 Trends Report on Phishing Emails

· Published 16/09/2025 13:41 · Modified 16/09/2025 14:10

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Published
16/09/2025 13:41
Modified
16/09/2025 14:10
Tags
2025-09-16 CVE-2017-11882 email attachments fakepage korean language malware phishing purecrypter script attachments
Related entities
1 vulnerabilities (cve), 4 observables, 9 techniques (mitre), 1 malware

Description

The analysis reveals that was the predominant threat in during August 2025, accounting for 63% of cases. Threat actors employed HTML scripts to replicate legitimate login pages and promotional content, aiming to capture user credentials. The report highlights an increase in distribution through document files exploiting vulnerabilities, such as the Equation Editor EQNEDT32.EXE vulnerability (), leading to execution. Additionally, there's a rising trend in distributing PE files compressed in ZIP formats via emails. The analysis covers emails, providing insights into commonly used keywords and attachment types. The report also includes statistics on attachment file extensions and distribution trends over the past six months.

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