Countries with the most botnets

Barry Raveendran Greene bgreene at senki.org
Wed Jan 27 23:28:00 UTC 2010


The Conficker data would be one empirical source you can look at. You have a
break down by ASN and Country:

http://www.shadowserver.org/wiki/pmwiki.php/Stats/Conficker


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven Bellovin [mailto:smb at cs.columbia.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 3:08 PM
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> Subject: Countries with the most botnets
> 
> A colleague needs to know, along with citable sources if possible.
> 
> Ideally - number of zombified PCs, percentage of zombified PCs, name of
> nation, source.
> 
> Threat reports from symantec and macafee suggest the US leads, with
> China a very close second.
> 
> Yes, we realize that answers will be imperfect.
> 
> 		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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