Scams Now Drive Almost Half of All Malware Detections as Attackers Weaponise Everyday Trust

Scams accounted for almost 46% of all threat detections in the first half of 2026, making them the single largest category of malicious activity tracked by Gen Digital , the company behind Norton, Avast, LifeLock and MoneyLion, according to its newly published Threat Report H1 2026 . The report, Gen’s first half-yearly threat publication after previously reporting on a quarterly basis, argues that the defining pattern of the period was not any single new technique, but attackers consistently ins