South Korea is all the rage throughout the globe for its remarkable Internet infrastructure, however with the rife implementation of broadband net connections seems to be potentially included with the threat of spam, spyware and malware. Yes, recently, Sophos in its latest security threat report revealed that South Korea is the third-worst country in al through the globe for distributing spam, which led the authorities to ambush on spammers based in the nation.
Sophos say that spammers are mauling inboxes with the intention of minting quick money, put up for sale bogus goods, and, in the most horrible cases, steal identities. In this regard, Sophos revealed that two men have been put under the custody on doubt of being caught up in one of South Korea’s biggest spam cases.
The men, of the age of 20 and 26 years old, have been charged to have violated the law by relaying 1.6 billion spam emails flanked by September and December 2006. Both computer programmers, South Korean authorities in Seoul say that the duo stole personal and financial info from 12,000 victims, which were after that sold to other firms by them. In May 2006, South Korean authorities caught hold of a man alleged of sprinting a network of zombie computers suspected of distributing 18 million spam messages a day.
