Botnet Statistics [2009-12-13]

Today I learned something new. I have always thought the country code for the United Kingdom was "UK." Not so. As a new country code "GB" landed at number 10, now I know it stands for the United Kingdom. Great Britain, perhaps?

detection period: 2009-12-13 00:00-23:59 UTC
total number of suspected botnet IPs: 1749
number of botnet IPs notified to network operators: 1566

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	608
2	BSNLNET	75
3	AR-TEAR7-LACNIC	56
4	002.558.157/0001-62	38
5	AR-CASA10-LACNIC	28
6	CHINANET-ZJ-WZ	25
7	CHINANET-JS	25
8	UNICOM-SD	24
9	HINET-NET	24
10	002.558.134/0001-58	21

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	882
2	Brazil	149
3	India	122
4	Argentina	115
5	United States	79
6	Russian Federation	66
7	Taiwan	41
8	South Korea	31
9	Ukraine	22
10	United Kingdom	20