Where Do Most Spams Come From?
Last week, Symantec announced that most spams come from Europe. But a news release by Sophos claims that Asia is where most spams originate from. According to this list, the Spam contribution from the different continents are
Asia - 32.1%
Europe - 27.1%
North America - 26.5%
South America - 12.5%
Africa - 1.1%
The top 5 countries dishing out spam are
1. USA
2. Russia
3. China (including Hong Kong)
4. Brazil
5. South Korea
12 Feb 08 | Security | How Many Web Pages Attacked Per Day?
A web page is attacked every 14 seconds. This makes the average number of attacks on websites to 6000 per day. 80 percent of these attacks are by hackers who hack the websites and host malware on their servers without the knowledges of the site owners.
07 Feb 08 | Security | Where Do Most Spams Come From?
While a random guesser would say Nigeria is where most spams come from, Symantec says Europe is where most Spams originate. For the third month in a row, spams from Europe have outnumbered North America.
78.5 percent of Email in January was Spam
44 percent spams originate from Europe
35.1 percent spams come from North America
07 Feb 08 | Security | Largest Single Source of Spam
Storm worm botnet had accounted for 21 percent of all spam in September 2007. Since then, the new Mega-D Botnet has been steadily increasing in numbers and according to security vendor, Marshal, it now accounts for 32 percent of all spam sent.
Mega-D is hence currently the largest single source of spam.
03 Feb 08 | Security | Spambot that affected New Year Holiday the most
Storm Botnet has almost tripled its size this holiday season from Christmas to New year owing to innumerable people assuming the spam bots to be genuine e-greetings and clicking the links. There are over 40000 affected computers online at a time.
04 Jan 08 | Security | Corporate Business Email usage
How many emails do you think a corporate manager reads and sends per day?
Average number of emails sent per day : 38
Average number of emails received per day : 93
Emails with attachment : 18
Spam Emails : 17 (approx.)
Revenue loss from Phishing - 2007
That’s a mammoth $3.2 Billion!!
Number of victims in 2007 : 3.6 million
Average loss per incident : $886
Most spoofed portals : Paypal and eBay
Top 10 Email Spam Lists for 2007
As the American Presidential elections draw near, the number of spams related to politics is likely to increase. And that’s for 2008.
For 2007, here is the top ten list for Spams:
1. Penny stocks spam
2. Drug spam
3. Pornography
4. Replica watches
5. Loans
6. Phishing spam
7. Pirated software
8. Fake job ads
9. Dating site spam
10. Fake diplomas
Which is the most common malware?
Trojans. According to the recent report by PandaLabs, the percent infections caused by each of the different malwares are:
Trojans (25%)
Adware (23%)
Worms (9%)
Backdoors (4%)
Spyware (3%)
Dialers (3%)
Bots (2%)
Others (31%)
‘Others’ includes Viruses, hacking tools, PUPs, etc.
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