Botnet Statistics for October 2018

detection period: 2018-10-01 00:00 - 2018-10-31 23:59 UTC
total number of suspected botnet IPs: 30662
number of blocked spams: 184030
recipient count of blocked spams: 5086189

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	6165
2	United States	3657
3	Russian Federation	1882
4	Brazil	1752
5	Viet Nam	1598
6	Indonesia	1465
7	India	1084
8	Taiwan	1036
9	South Korea	646
10	Hong Kong	572
11	Turkey	563
12	France	553
13	Ukraine	491
14	Thailand	473
15	Italy	426
16	Mexico	401
17	Venezuela	384
18	Germany	373
19	United Kingdom	364
20	Iran	360
21	Netherlands	343
22	Sweden	303
23	Canada	300
24	Egypt	240
25	Colombia	230

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	147425
2	South Korea	12449
3	Spain	12167
4	Netherlands	5067
5	Colombia	4486
6	Canada	1311
7	United States	636
8	France	226
9	India	76
10	ZZ	26
11	Viet Nam	21
12	Indonesia	15
13	Germany	9
14	Bangladesh	8
15	Romania	7
16	Tunisia	6
17	Portugal	6
18	Brazil	6
19	Taiwan	5
20	Mexico	5
21	United Kingdom	5
22	Turkey	4
23	Philippines	4
24	Italy	4
25	Poland	3

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	4422679
2	South Korea	373384
3	Colombia	134522
4	Canada	65212
5	Spain	60815
6	United States	17228
7	Netherlands	10131
8	India	1787
9	France	226
10	ZZ	27
11	Viet Nam	21
12	Indonesia	15
13	Germany	14
14	Nigeria	9
15	United Kingdom	9
16	Bangladesh	8
17	Romania	7
18	Tunisia	6
19	Portugal	6
20	Brazil	6
21	Taiwan	5
22	Mexico	5
23	Turkey	4
24	Philippines	4
25	Italy	4

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

Rank	Network	# of suspected botnet IPs
1	VNPT-VNNIC-VN	784
2	HINET-NET	738
3	ALISOFT	592
4	002.558.157/0001-62	503
5	TELKOMNET	488
6	CHINANET-GD	457
7	UNKNOWN	410
8	CHINANET-JS	409
9	CMNET	350
10	DIGITALOCEAN-8	341
11	VE-CSVE-LACNIC	339
12	TencentCloud	327
13	KORNET-KR	308
14	AT-88-Z	307
15	AMAZON-2011L	263
16	INTERNUX-NET	260
17	MX-USCV4-LACNIC	250
18	NETVIGATOR	228
19	VIETEL-VN	183
20	UNICOM-SD	178
21	VIETEL-VNNIC-VN	158
22	CHINANET-FJ	151
23	Baidu	137
24	CHINANET-SH	136
25	UNICOM-BJ	131

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	93001
2	CHINANET-TJ	54422
3	KORNET-KR	12447
4	ES-SERVIHOSTING-20120126	12162
5	HOSTPALACE	5064
6	CO-ETBE-LACNIC	4484
7	OVH-ARIN-7	1307
8	AIRLINERES-CALPOP-COM	518
9	ONLINE_NET_DEDICATED_SERVERS	223
10	NJIIX	96
11	BSNLNET	60
12	UNKNOWN	46
13	VNPT-VNNIC-VN	12
14	CENTURYLINK-LEGACY-QWEST-INET-16	10
15	VIETEL-VN	6
16	BM-ID	6
17	HINET-NET	5
18	HETZNER-RZ-BLK-ERX3	5
19	REALITY-CHECK-NETWORK	4
20	060.316.817/0001-03	4
21	TN-ATI-20100503	3
22	PTCLBB-PK	3
23	HUTCHVAS	3
24	ETC-VNNIC-VN	3
25	AFRINIC-20090508	3

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	2790017
2	CHINANET-TJ	1632660
3	KORNET-KR	373382
4	CO-ETBE-LACNIC	134520
5	OVH-ARIN-7	65204
6	ES-SERVIHOSTING-20120126	60810
7	AIRLINERES-CALPOP-COM	15540
8	HOSTPALACE	10127
9	BSNLNET	1771
10	NJIIX	1666
11	ONLINE_NET_DEDICATED_SERVERS	223
12	UNKNOWN	47
13	VNPT-VNNIC-VN	12
14	CENTURYLINK-LEGACY-QWEST-INET-16	10
15	AFRINIC-20090508	9
16	VIETEL-VN	6
17	BM-ID	6
18	UK-HYDRACOM-20030924	5
19	HINET-NET	5
20	HETZNER-RZ-BLK-ERX3	5
21	B2NETSOLUTIONS	5
22	REALITY-CHECK-NETWORK	4
23	DE-HETZNER-20120425	4
24	060.316.817/0001-03	4
25	TN-ATI-20100503	3