Spam statistics of third-quarter 2010
By Gina on October 1, 2010 | Spam and email, top 10 spamming countries, spam and email, panda research, spammers, hackers
In a report which is done by Panda Security 95 percent of all e-mails during the third quarter is spam. 55 percent of them came from 10 countries, such as, India, Brazil, Russia, Ukraine, Romania, South Korea, Vietnam, United States, Kazakhstan, Indonesia, Poland, China, Colombia, Israel and Taiwan.
In a report UK took and attention because it was not found at the top 10 list this time. It seems like United Kingdom is doing something that keep them out of the list.
Panda Security notes that the situation of spam still is quite a puzzle for researchers. It has not improved. As the researchers find their ways to stop spammers, the technologies changes and that make hackers be one step ahead.
Security researches always come back to the question how people get convinced and fall for the scam. Hackers do not waste their time by creating difficult texts or messages that can easily trick user into believing unreliable information. Those spam emails are pretty simple in text and design.
However, spammers do put an effort in a method they release the message. It is known that they even send spam in mp3 format.
The most common threats to user’s computer take trojans and botnets. Many of them are configured to steal personal data and even try to commit an identity theft. It is not a rare thing that cybercriminals try to spread their malicious things through the social networks like Facebook which is the most popular of all.
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