Friday, May 3, 2013

China and America, the biggest spam-producing country in the world

China and America, the biggest spam-producing country in the world

Spam often disturbing when suddenly you sent a message or a barrage of information from people you do not know. Through a press release, Kaspersky Lab re-issued a report on spam. Research conducted by the company's security software reveals that China and the United States (U.S.) spam distribution dominates the world in March.

Both countries cumulatively produce 43 percent of the total spam. The report also mentions that the number of phishing emails increases doubled.

Reportedly, in March 2013 the flow of spam aka "junk mail" this stable at the level of 70.1 percent. Overall amount of spam also experiencing decreased in March. Nevertheless, the users are advised to keep cautious because at the same time the number of malicious attachments in emails rose as big as 1.2 percent with an average as big as 4 percent.

List of spam-sending countries to Europe experiencing significant changes. Sender of spam from South Korea to Europe down 13 percent even though the country keep were in the first position as a spam-sending countries to Europe is biggest.

Meanwhile, it was reported also that the number of phishing emails increases doubled, where the top targets most frequently targeted by the phishers not experiencing change. The first highest target is social networking sites, both are financial institutions, e-pay, the bank and the third highest target is the search engine.

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