A report by the computer security company SOPHOS has revealed which are the countries from which the most spam is launched. For the first time in many years, the United States has ceased to be the leader. Who is at the top of the podium?
China has become, for the first time in many years, the country that emits the most junk mail (popularly known as spam) on the planet. Exactly, 16.7% of the total is launched from the Asian giant, followed by the United States with 11.2% and South Korea with 8.8%. That means one out of every 6 spam emails we regularly receive in our inbox was sent from China.
The ranking of the 12 most invasive countries at the spam level is completed by Russia (7.3%), Japan (5.7%), Vietnam (5.2%), Ukraine (4.6%), Brazil (2 , 6%), Germany (2.6%), India (2.1%), Argentina (2.0%) and Taiwan (1.8%). Thus, segmenting it by continents, more than 40% of all spam in the world is sent from Asia. Spain, for its part, remains close to the Top Ten, occupying the 13th position with 1.7% of the total.
The Spamionship report for the third quarter of last year has also revealed that less and less spam is sent to Western countries and more to Eastern ones.
As explained by SOPHOS, most of the spam is sent by zombie computers , that is, computers that have been infected by bots and that are managed by a third party, which collects them in the so-called bot farms to carry out massive spam mailings. or carry out denial of service attacks, among others. For this reason, what this report truly reflects is that Asian computers are becoming more vulnerable to the infection of this type of malware, which is why spamming using computers from this source is increasing.
And it is that not only is it enough to install a good antivirus on the computer, but common sense is essential for the protection of data and equipment . In the words of Pablo Teijeira, CEO of Sophos Iberia, “distrusting emails of unknown origin or links on social networks with sensational issues is essential if we want to keep our teams safe”.
