RUSSIA world's top three spammers

According to a report by Symantec in January 2014 , last month, Russia ranked third in the number of spam relayed - its share was 6.4% of the total volume of junk e- mail.

According to Symantec, last month, global spam levels fell by 1.9% to 62.1%. In addition, each 431st letter was malicious. It is worth noting that a month earlier , the figure was 1 an 164. With the largest number of users encountered malicious emails in Hungary, where the viruses contained in every 217th letter. As for the sources of malicious correspondence , there were U.S. leader - 66.5% .

Most spam emails in January came from Canada (7.7%) , followed by Spain ( 6.8%). In addition , the top five distributors of spam includes the U.S. (5.9%) and Finland ( 5.6%).

Experts also said that 17% increase in the number of vulnerabilities , which reached 6443 . Last month, experts reported 555 new flaws . In addition , it was discovered three new species and 139 types of malicious software for mobile devices. About 32 % of them carried out surveillance of users , 15% steal confidential information . Another 14 % are present backdoors and Trojans downloaders .