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India among top 10 spam sending countries

Threats are becoming more and more sophisticated, says Secure Computing report

Thursday, August 21, 2008

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BANGALORE, INDIA: Secure Computing, a public company that provides enterprise security solution, recently published the Internet Threats Report for the second quarter of 2008.

Among other findings, the report shows that while spam volume and new zombies have decreased in the past quarter, enterprises and home users are increasingly being attacked through malicious Web content and blended security attacks.

According to the report India figures among the top 10 spam sending countries, accounting for nearly 3 per cent of spam sent globally in the second quarter of 2008, says The Economic Times, quoting the report.

The report further notes that spam or unsolicited e-mails sent from emerging markets is expected to grow as the Internet infrastructure improves.

According to Secure Computing, the top 10 countries account for 55 per cent of the world's spam volume. While US topped the spammers' list with a 16.56 per cent contribution, Russia comes second with nearly half of that.

The other countries in the list are Turkey, Brazil, Italy and China. India is ranked ninth in the list.

The report states that even though the overall spam volume is up 280 per cent from Q2 2007 to Q2 2008, spam volumes have decreased by 40 per cent this quarter.

Even though both spam and new zombies are down this year, Secure Computing researchers point to other areas that are increasingly problematic.

Male enhancement, product replica and prescription drug spam hold the top three places of types of spam, proving that you can't beat the oldies but goodies, it says.

The report further says that 50 per cent of all websites are now published in languages other than English.

Secure Computing also points to a spam-based email attack that links to new Web-based malware and features news on Angelina Jolie as bait.

On average, about 2.28 per cent of the total global daily email volume contains subjects like "Angelina Jolie naked," "Angelina Jolie nude movie," and "Angelina Jolie naked video."

"We are witnessing change every single day in how the cyber criminals are developing new vectors of attack through spam, malicious Web content, spyware and botnet deployments," said Dmitri Alperovitch, director of intelligence analysis at Secure Computing.

Threats are becoming more and more sophisticated, as recipients of threats are better educated on what to look for.

Users are more cautious and this has led to a rise in more cunning ways to harvest personal information without users' apparent involvement, the report pointed out.

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Somebody said on 1/4/2009 10:20:52 AM:
Thats True! Reasons Our Administrators are not qualified enough to control spams.They even cant stop Telnet based spamming. Many even dont know how their SMTP is being used. One can test Its really annoying But True. Our ISP dont take care of spamming. I hardly seen any spam authority body in india. Even Indian Govt dont have any mechanism to stop these. Thats the reason Nigrain always try to find next indian fool and offer tons of money even in the economics crises time. Sorry I dont like to get tons of spams thats why my email is ...

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m smith said on 9/27/2008 8:52:18 PM:
India is 1 BILLION persons plus; UK is 60 million: PER PERSON, there are more spam messages in UK. Each PERSON in the UK consumes many times energy and waste production than a eprson in India. Figures are used croockedly by such western media as BBC and Sky.

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B S Kumar said on 9/16/2008 10:13:21 PM:
Well DUH! Second largest population and rapidly increasing internet access! Look at the crappy little countries ahead of India though!

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lucy said on 8/31/2008 7:04:30 AM:
hey

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me Smythe said on 8/26/2008 9:27:30 PM:
Top is an abused word especially by countries such as Britain, France and USA: Top for a country of 1 BILLION plus persons! RELATIVELY, i.e. spams PER PERSON, the figures would be much much less than those in Britain, even insignificant. The same applies to energy consumption/carbon emisson: PER PERSON, India produces absolute miniscule amount compared to USA, Britain, Germany, France, Austrlia etc (indeed a rural Indian hardly uses any electricity/gas/machines etc whilst most people in Britain drive at least one car freely/ hardly anyone walks in Britain) : BUT this crooked logic is used freely by these countries to benefit them.

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Kunal said on 8/22/2008 10:36:14 AM:
Spam is emerging as a big nuisance in India as cautioned by Mr. Praveen Dalal, the Leading Techno-Legal ICT, Cyber Law, Cyber Security and Cyber Forensics Specialist of India . This is more so when the cyber law of India, i.e. IT Act, 2000 does not address this issue. To worsen the situation we are inviting big trouble by not keeping in mind the necessities of cyber security and cyber forensics in India. The ICT Trends in India-2006, ICT Trends in India-2007, Cyber Security Trends by PTLB-2007, etc are examples of faulty ICT/E-governance strategies and policies of India. Further, cyber forensics trends in India are also not conducive for the growth of legal enablement of ICT systems in India. The net result is that law enforcement finds it difficult to deal with issues involving ICT. Thus, whether it is the political, legislative or legal aspect of e-governance, India is scoring poor on all the fronts. Of course, the “India shining” concept is beyond the reach of these criticisms.

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