Country IP Blocks

Our list of the Top 10 Global Spammers is out. The biggest surprise on the list is Korea, as it takes over the number one global spammer spot from China. With the improved high speed internet infrastructure in Korea and ease of network access, we knew Korea would be on the rise. We just did not expect it to be so soon.

Here is our complete Global Spanner Top Ten List for the first quarter of 2010:

1. Korea
2. China
3. India
4. Russia
5. Turkey
6. Viet Nam
7. Ukraine
8. Brazil
9. Venezuela
10. Pakistan

Here are the countries in our Top Ten Global Spammers list:

Global spam problems have significantly increased during the first quarter of 2010, with a rise in snowshoe spam and an exponential growth in Botnet spam distribution.

Snowshoe spam, which rose dramatically during the final quarter of 2009, before tapering off in January, is now experiencing resurgence. Snowshoe spam is identified as a central point of spam origin, using a wide variety of IP addresses to cloak the span. These addresses are typically within a /24 range but may encompass much larger address blocks. In this type of operation the spam is spewed from a network, rapidly spanning through the IP addresses within the network, emitting spam in a wide footprint. The intent is to make the technique more efficient and more difficult to identify. Read more…