Chinese spammers go quiet
THE amount of spam originating from China dropped dramatically in the first three months of the year, an IT security firm says.
In the period from January to March, China accounted for 7.5 per cent of all worldwide spam, Sophos said in a statement. This compared with 21.9 per cent in the year-earlier period.
"China, who until recently was an intimate rival to the US, dropped dramatically during the last quarter," said Carole Theriault, a senior security consultant at Sophos.
No immediate explanation was provided in the statement as to why spam had declined from China, otherwise seen as a spam superpower.
However internet communications from China and elsewhere in Asia have only recently recovered from damage to undersea cables caused by an earthquake near Taiwan last December.
