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It's still one of the top methods. See for example Symantec's report [1] with lots of data. [1] https://www.symantec.com/content/dam/symantec/docs/reports/ist

• igetspam 7y ago
  I literally just got a call about someone being hit. The avenues used to penetrate are email spam and RDP.
  • FDSGSG 7y ago
    When was the last time you saw email spam linking to a browser driveby exploit?
• FDSGSG 7y ago
  I'm sorry, I can't seem to find any references to driveby exploits in that report. I see many mentions of malicious office documents with downloader macros and similar attacks that certainly happen regularly today. I do not see any mentions of attacks fitting the driveby pattern you described earlier. I am aware such targetted attacks do exists, but they're extremely rare these days compared to a few years back. Almost all attacks today rely on social engineering to trick the victim into handing out their credentials or opening a malicious file, not a link.