The Sophos Labs’ Dirty Dozen is out and this time round, the US tops the list of spam spewing countries. It is followed by China and India in the next two slot. India was the leading country relaying spam according to the last survey. However, US has taken this spot once again. Over the last three months, about 1.5th of all spam globally came from American computers.
Here’s the list of spam sharing countries between December 2012 – February 2013
USA | 18.3% |
China | 8.2% |
India | 4.2% |
Peru | 4.0% |
France | 3.4% |
S. Korea | 3.4% |
Italy | 3.4% |
Taiwan | 2.9% |
Russia | 2.9% |
Spain | 2.8% |
Germany | 2.7% |
Iran | 2.6% |
Other | 41.1% |