According to the report by Panda Labs research analysts, Brazil, India and Korea top the list of countries which accounted for bulk of spam during the first two months of 2010.

Definition of Spam according to Wikipedia:

Spam is the abuse of electronic messaging systems (including most broadcast media, digital delivery systems) to send unsolicited bulk messages indiscriminately. While the most widely recognized form of spam is e-mail spam, the term is applied to similar abuses in other media: instant messaging spam, Usenet newsgroup spam, Web search engine spam, spam in blogs, wiki spam, online classified ads spam, mobile phone messaging spam, Internet forum spam, junk fax transmissions, social networking spam, and file sharing network spam.

The security research firm states that main attraction used as part of the spam injection technique is the promise of videos or photos of Brazilian girls.

In terms of percentage spam, Brazil topped with 13.76% of spam, while India came in second with 10.98% and Korea was at third position with 6.32% of spam expressed as percentile of total messages analysed.

It is absolutely true that world over everyone has been infected by the spam problem but the fact of the matter is that there are some countries which are contributing for majority of the spam. Why is that they are causing more spam than others? The simple reason is the security initiatives of the respective countries. When there are no encryption mechnaisms,they become an easy pray for spammers who can easily send spam emails to infect everyone’s machines and inturn the whole network.

The research analysts at Panda studied nearly 5 million spam messages. To identify and collect spam messages, Panda labs had set mail servers. These mail servers which are purposely setup with the intention of identifying spam are called ’spamtraps’. Through a spamtrap it is easy to identify the source ip, i.e. the origin of the spam.

In a statement issued by Panda Labs, “Another amazing data: the spam analyzed during these two months came from a total of almost one million different IP addresses. This shows that the spam is mostly sent from zombie computers belonging to a botnet.” This way, the computers of the infected users themselves are those which send the spam. The cybercrooks have thousands of computers at their disposal which do the dirty work for them.

In the list of most spamming cities, India’s capital city of New Delhi is lead by Seoul of Korea in the first place and Hanoi of Vietnam in the second position respectively. Vietnam, Korea and US also are among the top five countries from which most spam was sent during the first two months of 2010, said the study.

In the coming months, there will be a new report having more information about spam & data about spam.

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