Shaoxing, China is World Malware Hub

Shaoxing, China seems to be sending lot of malware to the world. Symantech's Message labs recently published a paper with some interesting statistics:

1. 21.3% of targeted attacks originated from Shaoxing, China, as is Taipei (16.5%) in Taiwan, and London (14.8%) in the UK.

Interestingly, the spammers are using TLS (Transport Layer Security) - popular way of sending email through an encrypted channel.

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  • optimystix
    optimystix

    @optimystix-4yMPKC • Mar 29, 2010

    I am surprised Indonesians are not on the list. they are the ones who gave the world the deadly brontok variants and many more. May be they are not sending in mass numbers but they definitely donate their deadliest works to the computing world.

    Russians are not too behind too. Some Russian hacker "firms" are known to openly recruit people who will help them to spread their malwares. they pay per click(on these malware links) and pay in dollars 😀

    looks like that's more profitable than plain blogging !

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  • Kaustubh Katdare
    Kaustubh Katdare

    @thebigk • Mar 29, 2010

    Still, China leads! Even most of the attacks on CE were from China. We banned most of the Chinese IP addresses but its easy to bypass them. Its surprising to see Romania rising on the list!

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  • Sahithi Pallavi
    Sahithi Pallavi

    @sahithi-oJZaYj • Mar 29, 2010

    The_Big_KStill, China leads! Even most of the attacks on CE were from China. We banned most of the Chinese IP addresses but its easy to bypass them. Its surprising to see Romania rising on the list!

    Oh my God! On CE too...!

    Seems Chinese are talented in hacking, cracking with viruses and all.

    What about Indians. 😀

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  • Ashraf HZ
    Ashraf HZ

    @Ash • Mar 30, 2010

    Biggie, you got a link to the paper? 😀

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  • Kaustubh Katdare
    Kaustubh Katdare

    @thebigk • Mar 30, 2010

    ashBiggie, you got a link to the paper? 😀

    Here's the link: #-Link-Snipped-#

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