Email Attachment Safety: What to Open and What to Delete

Email attachments remain one of the most common malware delivery methods. Here's how to identify dangerous file types and protect your business.

Every day, your employees receive dozens of emails with attachments — invoices, contracts, reports, spreadsheets. Most are legitimate. But some contain malware that can encrypt your files, steal your data, or give attackers a backdoor into your entire network.

The challenge is that malicious attachments often look identical to the real thing, and a singl…