Botnet Statistics for August 2018

detection period: 2018-08-01 00:00 - 2018-08-31 23:59 UTC
total number of suspected botnet IPs: 4197
number of blocked spams: 446936
recipient count of blocked spams: 13175920

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	992
2	United States	473
3	France	277
4	Brazil	198
5	Viet Nam	181
6	South Korea	160
7	Russian Federation	149
8	India	139
9	Germany	103
10	Italy	100
11	Netherlands	84
12	Colombia	84
13	Canada	83
14	Indonesia	81
15	United Kingdom	73
16	Egypt	58
17	Ecuador	57
18	Thailand	56
19	Taiwan	41
20	Argentina	39
21	Ukraine	34
22	Mexico	34
23	Poland	31
24	Spain	31
25	Japan	28

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	China	289739
2	South Korea	63054
3	Colombia	38089
4	Russian Federation	20854
5	Italy	17552
6	United States	6343
7	Netherlands	5991
8	Slovenia	2434
9	France	1408
10	Nigeria	903
11	India	253
12	Brazil	138
13	ZZ	80
14	Germany	67
15	South Africa	6
16	Canada	4
17	Poland	3
18	United Kingdom	3
19	Viet Nam	2
20	Taiwan	2
21	Pakistan	2
22	Bangladesh	2
23	Saudi Arabia	1
24	Romania	1
25	Iran	1

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	China	8704081
2	South Korea	1891620
3	Colombia	1142657
4	Russian Federation	676919
5	Netherlands	269723
6	United States	216212
7	Slovenia	121424
8	France	69393
9	Nigeria	45058
10	Italy	17552
11	India	7590
12	Brazil	6900
13	Germany	6584
14	ZZ	86
15	Canada	42
16	Poland	24
17	Saudi Arabia	20
18	South Africa	6
19	Pakistan	6
20	United Kingdom	6
21	Taiwan	5
22	Bangladesh	4
23	Viet Nam	2
24	Romania	1
25	Iran	1

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

Rank	Network	# of suspected botnet IPs
1	TencentCloud	131
2	VNPT-VNNIC-VN	102
3	UNKNOWN	91
4	KORNET-KR	83
5	CMNET	72
6	CHINANET-GD	62
7	CHINANET-JS	52
8	EC-ANSA-LACNIC	45
9	Baidu	44
10	TENCENT-CN	42
11	CO-ACSA-LACNIC	35
12	AT-88-Z	33
13	CHINANET-SH	32
14	CABLE-1	28
15	HO-2	27
16	HINET-NET	26
17	UNICOM-BJ	24
18	MSFT	24
19	FR-OVH	24
20	CHINANET-SC	24
21	NON-RIPE-NCC-MANAGED-ADDRESS-BLOCK	21
22	BSNLNET	21
23	BHARTI-IN	21
24	TELKOMNET	20
25	VIETEL-VN	19

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

Rank	Network	# of blocked spams
1	HANGZHOU-SRT-TECHNOLOGY-CO-LTD	183933
2	CHINANET-TJ	83677
3	KORNET-KR	63054
4	CO-ETBE-LACNIC	38089
5	UNICOM-CN	21439
6	INSYS-EKB-3	20854
7	ARUBAUK-NET	17538
8	ESTROWEB-01	5544
9	AIRLINERES-CALPOP-COM	5010
10	SI-TELEKOM-193-77	2434
11	PROXGROUP-NET-01	1392
12	MSFT	1316
13	UNKNOWN	986
14	CHINANET-SN	609
15	CLOUDSTAR-02	446
16	BSNLNET	211
17	003.420.926/0002-05	138
18	CHINANET-GD	77
19	DE-DBD-20060406	66
20	BSNL-GSM-EastZone	42
21	IT-INTERBUSINESS-960209	10
22	ONLINE_NET_DEDICATED_SERVERS	6
23	INTER-83	6
24	FR-OVH-19881123	6
25	SS8	5

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

Rank	Network	recipient count of blocked spams
1	HANGZHOU-SRT-TECHNOLOGY-CO-LTD	5517990
2	CHINANET-TJ	2510310
3	KORNET-KR	1891620
4	CO-ETBE-LACNIC	1142657
5	INSYS-EKB-3	676919
6	UNICOM-CN	643170
7	ESTROWEB-01	251842
8	AIRLINERES-CALPOP-COM	150300
9	SI-TELEKOM-193-77	121424
10	PROXGROUP-NET-01	69365
11	MSFT	65693
12	UNKNOWN	45141
13	CHINANET-SN	30346
14	CLOUDSTAR-02	17880
15	ARUBAUK-NET	17538
16	003.420.926/0002-05	6900
17	DE-DBD-20060406	6583
18	BSNLNET	6330
19	CHINANET-GD	2234
20	BSNL-GSM-EastZone	1260
21	SS8	186
22	ASHTON	40
23	WHF-NETWORK	23
24	GSCTCM-CN	23
25	SA-ETTIHADETISALAT-20120330	20