The phrase "malicious email" is correct and can be used in written English.
For example: "If you receive a malicious email, be sure to delete it."
But the commonality is that in such embedded situations, many have open telnet, open SSH and an SMTP (aka 'email') server, so there's less 'infection' or 'exploit' involved by the attacker than simple 'open or default user/pass login and configuration', login, and set up the existing emailer to send or relay malicious email".
Attackers usually use social engineering in order to make the recipient open the malicious email, open the attachment, or press a link.
According to a spokesman for MessageLabs, the company responsible for filtering malicious email from government networks, similar spy emails - called "targeted Trojans' - were noticed about 18 months ago.
The threat we face is not some exotic cyberweapon, but the bane of IT departments everywhere: phishing and malicious email attachments.
Indeed, the producers' lawyers continued, Mr. Thibodeau sent out "false and malicious email, each one designed to scare off the Angel Investor from providing a financial lifeline to the show".
If you've clicked the link in the malicious email, you can revoke the attacker's access by visiting https://myaccount.google.com/permissions and deleting the "Google Docs" app — which is the one pretending to be legitimate.
In Oregon, Kaspersky is used with other anti-virus software by Portland city government to scan for malicious emails.
Foreign intelligence agencies are carrying out sustained cyberattacks on the UK Treasury, targeting it with malicious emails and programs designed to steal information, the Chancellor, George Osborne, has revealed.
To think the McBride/Draper controversy was merely about malicious emails being exchanged between unhinged people is to miss the bigger picture.
These accounted for two thirds of all malicious emails and included the WannaCry virus that hit the NHS and infected 300,000 computers across 150 countries.
And it's precisely this functionality that we have seen cybercriminals exploiting today, pretending that their malicious emails in fact come from an HP scanner inside your organisation.
