Botnet Statistics [2009-12-12]

The top 6 countries on my botnet chart were always (in alphabetic order): Argentina, Brazil, China, India, Russian Federation, and Taiwan. Not any more! The new comer is United States, landed at number 6. Russian Federation is at the 7th spot now.

detection period: 2009-12-12 00:00-23:59 UTC
total number of suspected botnet IPs: 2059
number of botnet IPs notified to network operators: 1852

The top 10 networks (as found in WHOIS), ordered by number of suspected botnet IPs are:

Rank	Network	# of suspected botnet IPs
1	CHINANET-GD	357
2	HINET-NET	293
3	BSNLNET	197
4	AR-TEAR7-LACNIC	64
5	RCOM	54
6	002.558.157/0001-62	52
7	000.065.376/0002-65	29
8	UNICOM-SD	28
9	002.558.134/0001-58	28
10	TATACOMM-IN	24

The top 10 countries (as defined by the 2-character country code), ordered by number of suspected botnet IPs are:

Rank	Country	# of suspected botnet IPs
1	China	639
2	India	320
3	Taiwan	306
4	Brazil	201
5	Argentina	111
6	United States	100
7	Russian Federation	66
8	South Korea	33
9	Colombia	22
10	Thailand	18