Countries with the most botnets

Richard Barnes richard.barnes at gmail.com
Thu Jan 28 00:22:30 UTC 2010


Team Cymru seems to put out a lot of information in their newsletters
about where bots are, e.g. this article about the locations of botnet
controllers:
<http://www.team-cymru.org/ReadingRoom/Articles/botnet-cnc-tlds-and-countries.html>

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Steven Bellovin <smb at cs.columbia.edu> wrote:
> A colleague needs to know, along with citable sources if possible.
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> Ideally - number of zombified PCs, percentage of zombified PCs, name of
> nation, source.
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> Threat reports from symantec and macafee suggest the US leads, with
> China a very close second.
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> Yes, we realize that answers will be imperfect.
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>                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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