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It was followed by Malaysia (2.36 million), Japan (1.86 million), Indonesia (1.80 million) and Taiwan (1.45 million).
More than half of the malicious emails circulated across the Asia-Pacific were detected in the five above economies, with 61.1% of the total malicious emails detected by Kaspersky Mail Antivirus.
These malicious emails were mostly sent by cyber criminals in the form of mass email to reach more users, with the intention of making financial gains for the attackers.