390 billion emails are sent globally every day, with nearly half of them being spam. Of these spam emails, approximately 3 to 5 percent are phishing emails, which corresponds to up to 9 billion emails – every day. Obviously, many of these will succumb to a provider’s diligent email filters or security solutions and be deleted long before they can end up in a user’s inbox. But if we suppose that even just 1 percent of these emails arrives in the recipient’s inbox, that translates into 90 million phishing emails on a daily basis.
Microsoft registered 8.3 billion threats stemming from phishing emails just in the first quarter of 2026. The experts at AV-TEST also collect spam and phishing emails on a daily basis and evaluate them in real time on their AV-ATLAS platform. It does not list the overall number, but records the different types of samples over a 7-day period. For example, more than 60 percent of 10,000 spam emails recorded contain a dangerous link and 30 percent have a malicious attachment. The rest of the spam emails are just annoying ads. [...]
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Microsoft registered 8.3 billion threats stemming from phishing emails just in the first quarter of 2026. The experts at AV-TEST also collect spam and phishing emails on a daily basis and evaluate them in real time on their AV-ATLAS platform. It does not list the overall number, but records the different types of samples over a 7-day period. For example, more than 60 percent of 10,000 spam emails recorded contain a dangerous link and 30 percent have a malicious attachment. The rest of the spam emails are just annoying ads. [...]
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The attached data can be used to create at-a-glance overviews or statistics of the test results, starting immediately (there is no embargo).
You are free to use the results as a basis for your own reviews, as long as a reference to "AV-TEST Institute" - with an active link to our website www.av-test.org - is given as source. Thank you!
