Study of Spam Sources
America Again at Top of Spam List
China and India Also Top Sources
According to the latest stats from SophosLabs, the USA is back on top as the leading spam relaying country. In the last three months, almost one fifth of all global spam has come from computers in the Land of the Free. The socalled Dirty Dozen of top spam relayers has a few changes from the last time.
The top twelve spam relaying countries for December 2012 thru February 2013
1. USA 18.3 percent 2. China 8.2 percent 3. India 4.2 percent 4. Peru 4.0 percent 5. France 3.4 percent 5. S. Korea 3.4 percent 5. Italy 3.4 percent 8. Taiwan 2.9 percent 8. Russia 2.9 percent 10. Spain 2.8 percent 11. Germany 2.7 percent 12. Iran 2.6 percent Other 41.1 percent
In the latter half of 2012, India had been leading the way but has now fallen back to third, with China leapfrogging into second place after a spell in the lower half of the list.