Most Zombies in India
By Bala Shah

Internet security giant Commtouch’s technology is used by more than 150 companies including Google and Microsoft.  It has just release it’s October 2011 - Internet Threats Trend Report - and India figures prominently as hosting the most Zombie Hot Spots in the world.

Additional October 2011 trends in the Commtouch report include:

- Over 230 billion emails with attached malware were sent in the outbreaks of August and September. The malware included variants of Sasfis, SpyEye, Zeus, fake antivirus, and others. 
- Phony Facebook notifications lured users to malware, while large scale scams accumulated hundreds of thousands of Facebook Likes
- Spam levels dropped to an average of 93 billion spam / phishing messages per day during Q3.
- The most popular spam topic in Q3 was pharmacy ads, increasing to 29% of all spam from 24% in Q2.
- India keeps its title as the country with the most zombies – 18% of all zombies worldwide. India again claimed the top zombie producer title, increasing its share to over 18%. Brazil dropped to 3rd position by decreasing its share of the global zombie population by nearly 3%. The US, and Iran joined the top 15, displacing Poland and Italy.