{"id":16288,"date":"2015-05-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.soundpr.it\/post_news\/quanto-spam-viene-prodotto-nel-mondo-sophos-presenta-la-sua-classifica-relativa-al-primo-trimestre-del-2015-chi-sono-i-paesi-che-devono-impegnarsi-maggiormente-nellacaccia-agli-zombie\/"},"modified":"2015-05-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T22:00:00","slug":"quanto-spam-viene-prodotto-nel-mondo-sophos-presenta-la-sua-classifica-relativa-al-primo-trimestre-del-2015-chi-sono-i-paesi-che-devono-impegnarsi-maggiormente-nellacaccia-agli-zombie","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.soundpr.it\/en\/news\/quanto-spam-viene-prodotto-nel-mondo-sophos-presenta-la-sua-classifica-relativa-al-primo-trimestre-del-2015-chi-sono-i-paesi-che-devono-impegnarsi-maggiormente-nellacaccia-agli-zombie\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Dirty Dozen&#8221; SPAMPIONSHIP: Who needs to kill the most zombies?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here they are: the latest &#8220;Dirty Dozen&#8221; SPAM\u00adPION\u00adSHIP tables, detailing the globe&#8217;s most dastardly distributors of delinquent data during the first quarter of 2015.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t seen the Dirty Dozen before, here&#8217;s how it works.<\/p>\n<p>SophosLabs maintains a large network of<em>spamtraps<\/em>, operated around the world with the express purpose of collecting spam.<\/p>\n<p>And, boy, do they collect spam!<\/p>\n<p>Of course, whenever spam falls into a trap, we can tell where the final step of its journey started by looking at the IP address of the computer from which the offending email was sent.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s possible to track back individual IP numbers fairly accurately, sometimes down to a street block, often to a suburb or metro area, and almost always to the sender&#8217;s country.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, our spamtraps tell us which countries are the worst senders of spam.<\/p>\n<h4>What we&#8217;re saying<\/h4>\n<p>On a point of order, in case anyone from a Dirty Dozen country should take offence for all the wrong reasons, we&#8217;re not saying that the spam senders in our charts are also the worst crooks.<\/p>\n<p>It would certainly be handy for security experts and law enforcement if the senders of spam were the crooks themselves, but that&#8217;s not how it works.<\/p>\n<p>Crooks mostly gave up sending spam themselves years ago: they&#8217;re more likely to get blocked if all their spam comes pouring out of their own servers, and more likely to get caught.<\/p>\n<p>What the crooks like to do instead do is to infect you with <a href=\"https:\/\/nakedsecurity.sophos.com\/2014\/10\/31\/how-bots-and-zombies-work\/\">zombie malware<\/a>, which gives them remote control over your computer.<\/p>\n<p>Once they can order your computer around from afar, they send it commands to<a href=\"https:\/\/nakedsecurity.sophos.com\/2014\/08\/05\/how-to-send-5-million-spam-emails\/\">start spamming<\/a> for them.<\/p>\n<p>\u2192 To understand how a crook can send commands to your computer remotely even if you have a firewall or a router that blocks all inbound connections, read our explanatory article, <a href=\"https:\/\/nakedsecurity.sophos.com\/2014\/10\/31\/how-bots-and-zombies-work\/\"><em><strong>How bots and zombies work, and why you should care<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, or listen to our Techknow podcast, <a href=\"https:\/\/nakedsecurity.sophos.com\/2014\/01\/09\/sophos-techknow-understanding-botnets-podcast\/\"><em><strong>Understanding Botnets<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You pay for spam with your computer&#8217;s processing power, with your internet bandwidth, and\u00a0\u2013 because you&#8217;re the person whose IP number shows up in the spamtraps\u00a0\u2013 with your reputation.<\/p>\n<p>So if you&#8217;re in the Dirty Dozen, you may not be a crook yourself.<\/p>\n<p>But you&#8217;re helping crooks out, even if you don&#8217;t realise it.<\/p>\n<h4>The SPAM\u00adPION\u00adSHIP results<\/h4>\n<p>With that clarification out of the way, here are the results, which we jokingly refer to as the SPAM\u00adPION\u00adSHIP, for Q1 (January-February-March) of 2015<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":16289,"template":"","news_categories":[147],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Quanto spam viene prodotto nel mondo? 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