Zombie Stats June - SC Magazine - CipherTrust

The following statistics are based on analysis of CipherTrust's global network of IronMail e-mail security appliances.

Total zombies for the month of June:7,795,845 (up 2.9% from May)

STATS:

Top 10 new zombie origination countries in June:

China=27.74%
USA=9.88%
Germany=6.79%
France=6.54%
Spain=4.80%
Korea=4.57%
Brazil=3.93%
Italy=3.68%
Japan=3.54%
Taiwan=3.39%

Commentary

With image-based spam now comprising up to 15% of all spam mail, new zombie numbers continued their upward trend rising another 3% in June. China once again accounted for most of the increase

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