India among the top 3 spam-sending nations in the world

Posted on 03-09-2010

It can certainly make one proud knowing your country is among the top 3 in the world, but if we’re top 3 in sending spam, we’d rather we weren’t. According to a new report by TrendLabs Researchers, India is responsible for 12.55% of all the spam messages circulated work, ranking behind only the United States of America. Brazil rounds off the list at number three. The top 3 rankings have remained the same for the past couple of months, but, India posted a decline in spam numbers in July, while the United States and Brazil posted an increase. Check out the list of top 10 nations below, and know that China doesn’t feature anywhere on it…

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In related news, TrendLabs Researchers also published a list of the top 10 phishing targets in the world, where HSBC tops the list. Unsurpisingly, 9 out of the top 10 are banking institutions, with PayPal the only non-bank in the list. ABN Amro is apparently the newest entrant to the list.

Speaking about the two reports, Mr. Amit Nath, Country Manager India and SAARC Trend Micro, said: "User account information and credit card credentials reap good profits for cybercriminals. As such, cybercriminals continued to leverage on the widespread use of social networking sites, search engines, and redirectors this July. In the report, we detailed certain attacks and notable data points related to compromised sites”

Rank	Country	Percentage
1	United States	24.93%
2	India	12.55%
3	Brazil	12.00%
4	United Kingdom	11.30%
5	Germany	8.66%
6	Vietnam	7.71%
7	France	6.17%
8	Republic of Korea	6.09%
9	Italy	5.46%
10	Romania	5.13%

Rank	Via Email	Via Site Spoofing
1	HSBC	PayPal
2	PayPal	eBay
3	Banco de Bradesco	Yahoo!
4	World of Warcraft	HSBC
5	Bank of America	Bank of America
6	Amazon	Banco de Bradesco
7	Chase Bank	Halifax Bank
8	ANZ	World of Warcraft
9	Halifax Bank	Chase Bank
10	Standard Bank of South Africa	Amazon

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