According to Kaspersky Lab the security company, which released certain statistics, following several botnets' shutdown between July and December 2010, e-mail spammers have once again retrieved operations to distribute more and more junk. CBR published this in news on March 28, 2011.
Actually, when the notorious Cutwail/Pushdo botnet was shutdown during August 2010, there was a remarkable decline in the total amount of junk e-mails originating from USA. Says Kaspersky, this decline was as low as 1-1.5 percentage points. But, from then on, the spam rate of U.S has been constantly rising so that during February 2011, it reached the peak of 4.27%.
Meanwhile, India continues to distribute spam in the largest amount worldwide. Approximately 8.83% of junk e-mails across the globe originate from India, whereas Russia stands second at 4.26%.
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