USA: world’s leading spammer

USA: world’s leading spammer

image of can of SpamLe Monde Informatique reported earlier this week on the release of the Dirty Dozen survey for the second quarter of 2013 by IT security company Sophos.

The United States of America continues to lead the rankings, whilst the French IT news website seems relieved to note that France has dropped out of the leading spammer rankings along with Peru and South Korea.

The world’s top 12 spamming nations are now as follows in descending order:

  • United States of America (13.8%);
  • Belorussia (11.7%);
  • China (5.9%);
  • Ukraine (5.5%);
  • Taiwan (3.6%);
  • India (3.6%);
  • Spain (3.4%);
  • Kazakhstan (3.3%);
  • Argentina (3.1%);
  • Italy (2.9%);
  • Russia (2.6%);
  • Germany (2.5%)
Author: Steve Woods

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