Botnet Statistics [2011-10-17]: Italy badly hit by global malware outbreak

There seems to be a global malware outbreak right now, and Italy is being hit quite hard. Italy is ranked at number 2 today.

detection period: 2011-10-17 00:00-23:59 UTC
total number of suspected botnet IPs: 3274
number of botnet IPs notified to network operators: 2279
number of blocked spams: 54776
recipient count of blocked spams: 1912150

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

Rank	Network	# of suspected botnet IPs
1	HINET-NET	204
2	CTTNET	117
3	CHINANET-GD	116
4	IT-TIN-20070221	104
5	IT-FASTWEB-20080225	99
6	CHINANET-JS	93
7	IT-TIWS-20090115	57
8	TELECOM-ADSL-7	43
9	VODAFONE-IT	37
10	UNICOM-HN	35

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	924
2	Italy	659
3	Taiwan	229
4	United States	126
5	Brazil	123
6	European Union	113
7	India	109
8	Russian Federation	96
9	South Korea	57
10	Indonesia	57