India becomes the king of the spammers, stealing America’s crown

The experts at SophosLabs have released their latest “dirty dozen” report detailing the world’s top spam-relaying countries – and we’ve discovered that in the space of a year, India has overtaken the United States to become the top global contributor to the junk email problem.

If you have a spam in your inbox, there’s an almost one in ten chance that it was relayed from an Indian computer…

Read more in my article on the Naked Security website.

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Graham Cluley is a veteran of the cybersecurity industry, having worked for a number of security companies since the early 1990s when he wrote the first ever version of Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus Toolkit for Windows. Now an independent analyst, he regularly makes media appearances and is an international public speaker on the topic of cybersecurity, hackers, and online privacy. Follow him on Twitter, Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, or drop him an email.

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