Asia top spam relaying continent: Sophos report

01.08.2012
Asia is now responsible for relaying 49.7 percent of all spam captured in SophosLabs's global network of spam traps in the second quarter of 2012, revealed the IT security and data protection firm Sophos.

Sophos has published the latest 'Dirty Dozen' of spam-relaying countries in which it reports that while North America continued to reduce the proportion of spam it relayed by e-mail, Asia had increased its output.

Top spam relaying continents for April-June 2012 are as follows:

1) Asia 49.7%

2) Europe 26.4%