Symantec: 80% of the world's spam e-mail

If the global economy, the BRIC acronym meaning mrupakan Brazil, Russia, India and China knows. Four countries are also a leader in the growing market. The same was true for the trend growth of spam. A report Spam & Phishing last report, the four states that there is also a market leader.
"We know the BRIC is a leading provider of development and testifies to the great economic growth," said a spokesman for Symantec, quoted by Info Security Magazine, 28 March, 2011. "The country will also show rapid growth of broadband Internet," he said.
The growth of broadband usage makes these countries vulnerable to a botnet, a network of infected computers.
"Of course, determined during the month of February, Symantec, that has an average daily volume of spam rose to 8.7 percent," said a spokesman for Symantec. "The increase in average daily e-mail was the first place since August 2010," he said.
A total of Symantec found spam accounted for 80.65 percent of all e-mails in February. Compare with the previous month, reaching 79.55 percent. However, this trend has been estimated earlier. Besides increasing the amount of spam, months ago there was also an increase in phishing, only reached 38.56 percent. "The rise of phishing is particularly true in areas such as the use of automated tools and unique areas," said Symantec. For more information, the number of phishing site (fraud) with the toolkit automatically creates around 50.33 percent. Phishing website with unique URLs increased 33.73 percent. The malicious website uses the IP-domain (figures) fell by 47.22 percent. Because the report also showed that there was a significant spike in the amount of phishing sites to use the language outside of the United Kingdom. The figure is 76.51 percent. Among the non-phishing sites in English, the website in Portuguese, French and Spanish is the most.