According to the data analyzed by the Atlas VPN team, based on AV-TEST statistics, 54% of spam emails in the last 6 months originated from two global superpowers — the United States & Russia.
While spammers in the US were behind a whopping 44% of global spam emails, Russia followed in 2nd, accounting for nearly 10%.
Germany occupied the 3rd spot in the list. Close to 8% of the spam emails sent in the last 6 months originated in the country. In the meantime, France sent out 4% of global spam emails.
China, another global superpower, rounds out the top 5 list of countries that distributed most spam emails over the past six months. Despite the country reinforcing internet censorship, a little over 3% of spam emails originated in China.
Other countries that are frequent senders of spam mail include Japan, Ukraine, Brazil, Spain, & Iran. Each accounts for around 2% of global spam emails.
In the past two weeks, AV-TEST registered 24,265 spam emails. Overall, 8,076 or 33% of such emails were malicious.
The majority, 5,699 spam emails, were phishing attacks. They made up more than 23% of all such emails distributed in this period of time. In the meantime, 1,783 or 7% of spam emails were blackmail, while 594 or 2% were scam emails.
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