Botnet Statistics [2010-12-31]

On the last day of 2010, I detected substantially more bots in India. Was there a malware outbreak happening in India?

detection period: 2010-12-31 00:00-23:59 UTC
total number of suspected botnet IPs: 3517
number of botnet IPs notified to network operators: 2826
number of blocked spams: 254531
recipient count of blocked spams: 8504023

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

Rank	Network	# of suspected botnet IPs
1	BSNLNET	937
2	HINET-NET	170
3	RCOM	148
4	CHINANET-GD	148
5	TATACOMM-IN	117
6	HATHWAY-NET	100
7	AR-TEAR7-LACNIC	78
8	000.065.376/0002-65	47
9	ALLIANCEBROADBAND	41
10	TRUENET	39

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	India	1407
2	China	473
3	Brazil	267
4	Taiwan	183
5	Russian Federation	160
6	Thailand	149
7	Argentina	133
8	Ukraine	69
9	Kazakhstan	66
10	South Korea	56