The attacks [keep getting bigger](http://www.messagesystems.com/blog/?p=1500 "The Biggest DDoS Attack Ever, Subject Lines, Autoresponders, SEO & Social Sharing"), and global spam levels, stable in 2012, are back on the rise, according to a McAfee study quoted at [ZDNet](http://www.zdnet.com/s-korea-hk-japan-lead-web-threat-origins-7000016244/ "S. Korea, HK, Japan lead Web threat origins") and other outlets.  How big a rise?  There was a volume of _1.9 trillion_ email spams in March 2013 alone – double the number detected in December 2012.  _Ouch!_

The number of websites and URL expressly created for spamming rose, too, though phishing URLs dropped – but only in comparison to their skyrocketing climb in 2012.

Where does it all originate, geographically-speaking?  In terms of spam and phishing URL hosting, if you said the USA, you’re a winner – we’re still in the lead, as of Q1!  But the powerhouse economies of the Asia-Pacific area – with their high-speed infrastructures – are coming on fast.  According to a January report from [Akamai](http://www.zdnet.com/asian-countries-improve-connection-speeds-despite-global-decline-7000010239/ "http://www.zdnet.com/asian-countries-improve-connection-speeds-despite-global-decline-7000010239/"), more than half of the world’s attack traffic originated from that region.

But there’s another challenger: the brand-spanking-new king for _sheer volume_ _of spam messages_ is Belarus, according to [TechNewsDaily.com](http://www.technewsdaily.com/18208-belarus-spam-king.html "http://www.technewsdaily.com/18208-belarus-spam-king.html").  In April, 448 million of these got sent from the U.S., but 559 million came from Belarus.

Their caviar is one thing.  Some exports we can do without.

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