Eastern Europe the source of most phishing emails, says report A new report from Barracuda Networks suggests that phishing emails most often originate in Eastern European countries Eastern European countries have topped the charts for sourcing the highest quantity of phishing emails as an overall percentage of total emails sent from these territories. This is according to Barracuda Networks’ most recent Threat Spotlight data which examined geolocation and network infrastructure across more than 2 billion emails, in partnership with Columbia University in January 2021. Barracuda researchers observed that Lithuania and Latvia recorded the highest percentage of phishing attacks worldwide. This was followed by Serbia, Ukraine, and Russia in descending order. Some American and Asian countries recorded the next largest volume of phishing emails as a total percentage of all emails sent – Bahamas, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Iran, Palestine and Kazakhstan were next in that order. Interestingly, some countries such as the United States had some of the highest quantities of phishing attacks originating from them, but due to the enormous amount of non-phishing emails being sent from these countries, their probability of phishing was extremely low. In the case of the US, their probability of phishing was only 0.02 per cent.