Spams fell sharply in November 2012 in India
According to a recent report generated by Kaspersky Lab, the share of spam in mail traffic fell sharply in November to 62.9 per cent, a decrease of over five percentage points compared to October’s average. It was the second month in a row that spammer activity was at a minimum for the year. Despite the percentage of phishing attacks also falling by half (0.015% of all mail), the danger posed by spam has not abated. Malicious programs were detected in 3.27% of email traffic – a slight increase on the previous month.
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Among the biggest sources of spam around the world, the leading countries are still China (32.7%) and the US (23.8%). The share of spam sent from China increased by 2 percentage points, while the share of spam originating in the US fell by 3.5 points.
Asia remains the top regional source of spam (51.9%, or 1.4 percentage points higher than in October), while North America and Western Europe were still among the top three regions.
The US (16.2%) and Germany (12.6%) remain among the countries that are targeted most by malicious emails. However, while Germany’s percentage did not change from October, America’s continued to rise (+3.6 percentage points), and in November the US became the number one country in terms of email antivirus detections.
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