Asia Leapfrogs Europe to Become Top Spam Continent, Sophos Reports
Mumbai: IT security and control firm Sophos, has published its latest report into the top twelve spam relaying countries, covering the first quarter of 2011.
Despite remaining at the top, the USA’s proportion of the global spam output fell significantly from 18.83% to 13.7% of all spam relayed from compromised computers. The United Kingdom also saw a drop, with its spam pollution falling from 4.54% to 3.2% of total global spam relayed, the UK moving down from fifth to sixth place in the dirty dozen.