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2007 X-Force Report Preview - Spam and Phishing Trends

Posted by Kris Lamb on February 06, 2008 at 3:11 PM EST.

We follow-up our report preview today with a trend excerpt from the spam and phishing analysis section of the 2007 X-Force report. While not wanting to give too much away before the full report is available, we thought this trend excerpt would be interesting and spur conversation with blog readers:

Phishing - Country of Origin

The following map highlights countries of origin for phishing e-mails. The country of origin indicates the location of the server that sent the phishing e-mail. X-Force believes that most phishing e-mail is sent by bot networks. Since bots can be controlled from anywhere, the real attackers behind a phishing scam could reside in a different country than the location of the server sending the e-mail. The statistics presented more likely indicate the location of hosts infected with spam/phishing bots than the nationality of the person controlling the phishing scam.

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