- USA generates 57% of the global spam, vipre -analysis of 1.45b E -emails -shows
- Expansion of US data centers makes spam enforcement harder and threats worse
- Cyber criminals change to simple, human focused phishing using PDFs and SVGs
A new report has claimed that the United States is now the largest source of spam -e emails in the world.
VIRPRES Q1 2025 Report on E -Mail email trends, USA was responsible for more than half (57%) of all spam sent worldwide during the first quarter of 2025.
Vipre analyzed 1.45 billion E emails for its report focusing on geolocation of the origin of the origin of the origin of the IP IE -Mail headers, rather than on domain extensions such as .com.
A problem that gets worse
Although there is no single cause, the extent of data center infrastructure in the United States makes it difficult to enforce spam -rules effectively and result in a larger number of input points for spam -e emails to spread.
With even more data centers built in the US, this is a problem that will only get worse in the coming years.
The report notes that spam being analyzed was 67% classified as malicious, linked to phishing or malware.
Recovery rises rapidly and accounts for almost one in five phishing attempts. Cyber criminals also appear to choose simpler, human -focused methods rather than more complex, technical.
SVG attachments were found to climb popularity among attackers who came in second place right behind PDFs as they can be used to fool users to visit malicious places.
The manufacturing sector is the top measure of e-mail-based attacks, with retail and financial divided second places.
Vipre says the Malware landscape has been changed recently, with the Xred Backdoor-Type Malware family taking the top location in front of the second-promoting malware family (Lumma) with a factor of three. Stealc, Agentesla and Redline followed the back.
“There is a clear shift in cyber criminal preferences against low-tech, high-acting, human-centered tactics. This requires a basic reconsideration of e-mail security that addresses the human element as attentively as the technological,” said Usman Choudhary, Chief Product and Technology Officer, Vipre Security Group.
“With cyber criminals who master the art of human deception and draft phishing attacks by conventional defense, email security again requires an approach that weapons cyber criminals’ own actions and uses their patterns to create a unique, future-proof response,” he added.
