[LACNIC/Seguridad] Spammers Rusos

[Arturo Servin]

     No es un secreto que mucho del SPAM que vemos hoy en día viene de
Rusia. Sin embargo el artículo esta interesante en cuestión de números
y estadísticas. Por ejemplo (directo copy-paste):

Seven of the top 10 spammers are Russian
The world’s biggest spammer is Russian, lives in Moscow and controls
the biggest spam network selling pharmaceuticals over the Internet
Russian spammers earned 3.74 billion rubles ($127 million) in 2009
The Russian economy lost 14.1 billion rubles ($479 million) in reduced
working hours in 2009
One-fifth of all Russian Internet advertisements is spam
US-based servers are responsible for 17.3 of worldwide spam, ahead of
any other country
16.4 percent of Russian spam originates from servers based in the US
Some 83 percent of spam messages are sent by ‘botnets’, armies of
zombie computers, based at home and in the office
Adverts for harmful, counterfeit Viagra are responsible for 73.7
percent of spam worldwide

El resto del artículo.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=5813

Saludos,
-as