According to the Kaspersky Lab spam report, in April 2011, India and Brazil are the most popular sources of spam. India accounted for 12.76% of the total volume of spam, followed by Brazil with 7.15%. In April, the amount of spam in email traffic increased by 1.2 % points and averaged 80.8% when compared to… Read More »
In India, first time spam emails in Hindi script and Devanagri script are being circulated. In the month of May 2011, Symantec the E-security firm has identified spam e-mails using the ‘419’ or ‘Nigerian’ technique in Hindi. Earlier the same messages were in English. This change in language states that the spammers are specifically targeting… Read More »
Though there has been an increase in use of Internet among Indians, many of them are not aware of the cyber spams. Many computers are infected with these cyber spams controlled by specific compromised zombie computers. According to a British IT security firm, the Sophos, USA, India and Russia are the top three countries producing… Read More »