According to the antivirus and security company Kaspersky, India is the top spam producing country in the whole world while it was two other countries from Asia which followed India. Spam has been on the rise always, and at one time it was Nigeria and the African countries doing the highest of it. Lately India had become the highest spam producing nation, and still holds the position. It contributes to 11.5% of the total spam that is produced all around, and Indonesia took the 2nd place with the 8.1% spam distribution.
- The amount of spam in email traffic remained unchanged compared to December and averaged 76.2%.
- The percentage of phishing emails also remained unchanged compared to the previous month and accounted for 0.02%.
- Malicious files were found in 4.3% of all emails, an increase of 0.3 percentage points compared to December’s figure.
Here is the list of the top 10 spam producing countries:
- India
- Indonesia
- South Korea
- Brazil
- Peru
- Vietnam
- Italy
- Great Britain
- Poland
- Argentina
The list proves that the top six countries which produce spam have the Asian and Latin American countries. The top 20 countries in the world saw a percentage change of not more than one percent. UK was out of the top 10 list in December, but the increased number of spam from there in January brought it directly into 8th position.
India top Spam Source according to Kaspersky – Indonesia and South Korea follows