South Africa among top 40 spam countries

Spam is the ideal delivery method for malware.

South Africa is among the world's top 40 sources of spam, according to security firm Kaspersky Lab.
South Africa was ranked 36th as a global source of spam in the third quarter of 2015, Kaspersky Lab told Fin24.

In the company’s 'Spam and Phishing in Q3 2015' report, it found that SA generated 0.42% of global spam. South Africa’s spam was directed mainly at Jordan, Namibia and Tajikistan.

The report also found that the US, Vietnam and China were the top three sources of global spam, accounting for 15.3%, 8.4% and 7.2% of mail shots respectively. 

Spam, though, has decreased slightly as a percentage of email traffic to 54.2%, a drop of 0.8% over the previous quarter, said Kaspersky.