• India is a Spamming Hub

    India is a Spamming Hub

    Techtree News Staff, Mar 25, 2010 1408 hrs IST

    Brazil, India, Korea, Vietnam and U.S. top the chart of spammers

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Wonder where all those annoying spam messages come from? Who sends them? Well, you have got some answers here. Panda Security, a player in antivirus and preventive technologies segment, has stated in its report that India is the world's number two spammer. Surprised? Even we were.


Panda Security has released a report stating that Brazil, India, Korea, Vietnam and U.S. head the list of countries from which most spam was sent during the first two months of the year 2010. With respect to the cities from which spam was being sent, Seoul was first in the list, followed by Hanoi, New Delhi, Bogota, Sao Paulo and Mumbai.

The five million emails analyzed by PandaLabs 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.

Spam is nothing but a business and is used primarily either to distribute malware or sell/advertise all type of products. Therefore, as long as there are users, no matter if they are few, who trust these messages, it's enough to continue betting on it.

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Discussion Board
(7) Comments
Viru Sahasrebud
,Chennai, on Mar 28, 2010 11:10 AM
Think they are talking about the emails my manager sends out. Thats definitely spam. Multiply it with the number of incompetent managers in IT companies and the total number of IT companies in India.
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Deep
,NEW DELHI, on Mar 26, 2010 08:51 PM
Use Windows without antivirus and become a source for spam. Most do not know that they spam
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raj
,chennai, on Mar 26, 2010 08:37 PM
i don't think Indian spammers distribute malware. Most of it should be ad campaigns. Hope panda can draw a line between this. Distributing malware is something not acceptable.
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atul
,jalgaon, on Mar 26, 2010 02:19 PM
Or this is a country specific report which might be applicable to US.
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atul
,jalgaon, on Mar 26, 2010 02:05 PM
That's a ridiculous report, totally false i should say China and US are the major hub for spam and malicious content
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Steve Wagner
,CA, on Mar 26, 2010 10:59 AM
False! You've not been to China then! China is the HUB and the world knows it :) You wont find bullet proof servers in India, but plenty of them in and around china for which the portion shown in there is way too less.. Wrong I must say
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snick
,india, on Mar 26, 2010 08:17 AM
nice one wondr hw to stop it n protect from entering into chain wish i could hv got more info
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