One more condemnation of Russia: Junk mail is of course now digital as well. Nearly 300 billion emails are sent and received every day, and spam messages accounted for more than 45 percent of email traffic in March 2021, according to Statista . Which country is most responsible for invading your inbox without permission? Russia, where nearly 25 percent of unsolicited emails originated . Most spam emails are benign if annoying, but a growing number of variants include spyware, trojans, ransomware, and other malicious agents designed to damage systems or compromise recipients’ personal information. It was a so-called “phishing” expedition by Russian hackers that famously led to the hacking of the Democratic National Committee’s emails in 2016 when a fake “account reset” claiming to be from Google sent to Clinton campaign manager John Podesta was opened . By the way, did you know that SPAM is called SPAM because it is a contraction of sp...
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