Brazil, US Biggest Spam and Virus Sources, Study Finds
Security vendor Network Box conducted a study and found that the US is the biggest source of the world's viruses with Brazil a close second. The countries flip-flop when it comes to spam sources, with Brazil dominating that area. South Korea also ranks in spam but leads when it comes to intrusion attack sources.
Security vendor Network Box conducted a study and found that the US is the biggest source of the world's viruses with Brazil a close second. The countries flip-flop when it comes to spam sources, with Brazil dominating that area. South Korea also ranks in spam but leads when it comes to intrusion attack sources.
Mark Webb-Johnson, CTO of Network Box, said: "The large number of recent vulnerabilities announced by both Microsoft and Apple led to a frenzy of malware activity spearheaded by an unprecedented large number of website defacements. What we're now seeing is that those who have already patched are protected and those that haven't are already infected -- so the number of new infections appears to have levelled off."
