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
All Security statistics and Facts
- Increase in Number of Phishing Attacks
- Prevalence of Corporate Email Snooping
- Increase in Infected Web Pages On the Web
- How Big is Spam Mail?
- How Many Viruses in All?
- Losses Due to Internet Crime
- Top Ten Malware for March 2008
- Penetration of Corporate Web Security
- Increase in Security Spend This Year
- How Much Does Your Company Monitor Your Online Activity?
- How Many Web Pages Attacked Per Day?
- Where Do Most Spams Come From?
- Largest Single Source of Spam
- Spambot that affected New Year Holiday the most
- Corporate Business Email usage
- Revenue loss from Phishing - 2007
- Top 10 Email Spam Lists for 2007
- Which is the most common malware?