Botnet Statistics for August 2016

detection period: 2016-08-01 00:00 - 2016-08-31 23:59 UTC
total number of suspected botnet IPs: 40100
number of blocked spams: 546780
recipient count of blocked spams: 12709564

The top 25 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	15749
2	Taiwan	12362
3	India	2544
4	Viet Nam	2009
5	Mexico	753
6	Iran	544
7	Brazil	522
8	Turkey	424
9	United States	344
10	Peru	321
11	Indonesia	293
12	Colombia	285
13	Pakistan	276
14	Venezuela	243
15	Bangladesh	173
16	Thailand	154
17	Argentina	152
18	Philippines	145
19	Arab Emirates	141
20	Tunisia	125
21	Saudi Arabia	125
22	Romania	98
23	Russian Federation	94
24	South Korea	89
25	Italy	85

The top 25 countries (as defined by the 2-character country code), ordered by number of blocked spams are:

Rank	Country	# of blocked spams
1	Taiwan	413531
2	United States	47790
3	China	41376
4	Poland	35587
5	Germany	3357
6	Philippines	712
7	Thailand	641
8	France	384
9	South Korea	355
10	Mexico	339
11	Turkey	303
12	Argentina	301
13	Russian Federation	300
14	United Kingdom	287
15	Brazil	200
16	Viet Nam	167
17	India	140
18	Saudi Arabia	116
19	Hong Kong	94
20	Peru	77
21	Austria	71
22	Colombia	65
23	Iran	64
24	Indonesia	51
25	Ecuador	49

The top 25 countries (as defined by the 2-character country code), ordered by recipient count of blocked spams are:

Rank	Country	recipient count of blocked spams
1	Taiwan	12259048
2	China	229428
3	United States	57379
4	Poland	35993
5	Thailand	17311
6	South Korea	10645
7	France	10371
8	Mexico	9112
9	Russian Federation	8827
10	Turkey	8760
11	Argentina	8416
12	United Kingdom	7713
13	Brazil	5587
14	Viet Nam	4728
15	India	4200
16	Germany	3560
17	Saudi Arabia	3120
18	Hong Kong	2728
19	Peru	2152
20	Iran	1919
21	Colombia	1917
22	Indonesia	1530
23	Ecuador	1334
24	Netherlands	1320
25	Philippines	1136

The top 25 networks (as found in WHOIS), ordered by number of suspected botnet IPs are:

Rank	Network	# of suspected botnet IPs
1	HINET-NET	11452
2	WASU	3283
3	CHINANET-JS	2085
4	CHINANET-AH	1412
5	CHINANET-HN	1391
6	UNICOM-ZJ	1376
7	VNPT-VNNIC-VN	979
8	SONET-NET	822
9	CHINANET-HB	822
10	CHINANET-SD	744
11	WASU-BB	569
12	UNICOM-JS	553
13	CHINANET-HA	493
14	CMNET	475
15	CHINANET-ZJ-QZ	438
16	BSNLNET	431
17	BHARTI-IN	411
18	MX-USCV4-LACNIC	355
19	VIETEL-VNNIC-VN	237
20	VE-CSVE-LACNIC	224
21	NorthStar	220
22	ETC-VNNIC-VN	212
23	CHINANET-GD	203
24	CHINANET-ZJ	194
25	FPT-VN	186

The top 25 networks (as found in WHOIS), ordered by number of blocked spams are:

Rank	Network	# of blocked spams
1	HINET-NET	411089
2	MSFT	46056
3	PL-ZFIX-20151105	35573
4	CHINANET-HN	19658
5	CHINANET-JS	7827
6	SCHLUND-CUSTOMERS	3349
7	ALISOFT	2314
8	SONET-NET	1975
9	CHINANET-JX	1844
10	CHINANET-AH	1767
11	CHINANET-HB	1243
12	MICROSOFT-1BLK	1036
13	CHINANET-SD	991
14	CNCITYNET	823
15	CHINANET-HA	752
16	ETPI	704
17	HICHINA	521
18	CHINANET-ZJ-QZ	488
19	CAT	426
20	CHINANET-ZJ	365
21	INU-VPS01	337
22	KORNET-KR	335
23	MSFT-EP	312
24	MX-USCV4-LACNIC	278
25	RingLink	262

The top 25 networks (as found in WHOIS), ordered by recipient count of blocked spams are:

Rank	Network	recipient count of blocked spams
1	HINET-NET	12235479
2	ALISOFT	62998
3	MSFT	46288
4	CHINANET-HN	42047
5	PL-ZFIX-20151105	35573
6	CNCITYNET	24681
7	HICHINA	13913
8	CAT	11607
9	CHINANET-JS	10988
10	KORNET-KR	10045
11	SONET-NET	9762
12	INU-VPS01	9160
13	RingLink	7859
14	MX-USCV4-LACNIC	7436
15	UNKNOWN	6433
16	AR-CASA10-LACNIC	5605
17	CHINANET-GD	5490
18	TencentCloud	4690
19	UNICOM-HA	4619
20	DTACTRINET-TH	4534
21	NCICNET-NET	4078
22	LVHN-VN	3918
23	UNICOM-SD	3881
24	NJTY-CN	3853
25	CHINANET-SH	3847