Feb 14
10% of the worldwide spam is from Rusia.
According to Computer World almost 10 percent of the worlds spam is sent from Russia, with a big 30% from Europe. According to Sophos’s Q4 2007 spam report, the country now deserves the moniker of ’spam superpower’ having seen its share of total volumes rise dramatically over the last year, to put it in firmly in second place behind arch-rival, the US.
The amount of spam sent from Russia has more than tripled since the beginning of 2007 until now, and they are on a very high ascending trend. Russia is already prominent for other types of internet criminality, such as malware and exploits, boosted by the near-mythical super-network, the Russian Business Network, which supposedly went out of business in November.
“We think that’s a pretty interesting increase and change in the chart over the years,” commented Graham Cluley of Sophos. “Of course, Russia has its fair share of spammers — and we see a good amount of Russian language spam advertising training courses and goods which are clearly of Russian origin.”
So, in the near future, Russia could take over US for the first place in spam amount.
Source: Computer World
February 19th, 2008 at 12:08 am
OK, so I have just checked an email I haven’t checked in about 7 or 8 months, as I do not use it anymore, and almost never have.
The idea is that I have received on it spam which was sent on Nov 22, 1986. Very funny. The interesting part is that since August 2005 up to November 2007, which is 27 months, I have received on that email address 700 spam messages. Since December 2007 up to today, I have received another 700 spam messages.
Conclusion: there is about 932% increase in spam I have received since the beginning of the year. WOW!