Well I can say thank God for the Chinese government and their clamp down on those people’s internet access.
Apparently, there is a certain amount of censorship happening there that is preventing access to the rest of the world via the internet. All I can say is… sucks to be you! (but it always did).
The upside to this is Spam, Junk Mail, web attacks from China have just about disappeared.
Now on to the new “Land of the Zombies”.
Zombies, in internet terms are virus infected workstations and servers that are under control of spammers via (most commonly) an IRC server that sends commands to the infected machines and directs them to send enormous amounts of crap email.
Let me explain, first off, the largest conglomeration of zombies is in the US, and they are enough to contend with (you know them, the always on folks?). But from the darker part of the world, Great Britain is a big player and then there are the rest.
The new hub of these zombies appears to be from the countries surrounding the Black Sea.
Poland
Belarus
Slovakia
Hungary
Albania
Macedonia
Bulgaria
Romainia
Ukraine
Russia
Turkey
Georgia
Maldova
Spam from IP addresses located in these countries is enormous!
Let’s not forget
Brazil
Venezuela
Argentina
Peru
Sweden
Switzerland
Thailand
Viet Nam
Yes there others, but the lion share comes from these areas (at least from our server reports).
Unless you actually need anything from these places, you are better served by blocking them at your firewall
Just my 2 cents
