Russia emerges as spam superpower
America remains number one when it comes to spam according IT security experts Sophos. The US is now responsible for over a fifth of all spam.
The big surprise, warn Sophos, is the huge rise in spam emerging from Russia which is now firmly in second place behind the US.
Carole Theriault, senior security consultant at Sophos quotes: “Responsible for a third of all spam, the US and Russia are the two dirty men of the spam generation, polluting email traffic with unwanted and potentially malicious messages,"
"It is not the case that a third of the world's spammers are based in those countries, but that legions of computers are poorly defended, allowing hackers to break in and turn them into botnets for the spreading of spam and malware."
The UK is currently ranked 12th producing 2.5% of the world’s spam.
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