Botnet Statistics for December 2018

detection period: 2018-12-01 00:00 - 2018-12-31 23:59 UTC
total number of suspected botnet IPs: 61203
number of blocked spams: 91355
recipient count of blocked spams: 2731899

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	10995
2	United States	8293
3	Brazil	3812
4	Russian Federation	3424
5	Viet Nam	3259
6	India	2436
7	Indonesia	2184
8	Taiwan	1657
9	South Korea	1539
10	Iran	1520
11	France	1438
12	Hong Kong	1095
13	Mexico	1028
14	Thailand	1011
15	Turkey	963
16	Germany	925
17	Italy	910
18	Ukraine	858
19	United Kingdom	800
20	Canada	690
21	Netherlands	641
22	Venezuela	572
23	Egypt	540
24	Colombia	530
25	Argentina	449

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	73990
2	Colombia	9224
3	Hong Kong	7785
4	India	50
5	United States	37
6	Poland	21
7	Viet Nam	19
8	Brazil	16
9	Argentina	13
10	Germany	11
11	Indonesia	10
12	Russian Federation	9
13	Kazakhstan	7
14	Taiwan	6
15	Turkey	6
16	Portugal	6
17	Pakistan	6
18	United Kingdom	6
19	Ukraine	5
20	Sri Lanka	5
21	Bangladesh	5
22	ZZ	4
23	Romania	4
24	South Korea	4
25	Italy	4

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	2219584
2	Colombia	276720
3	Hong Kong	233550
4	United States	967
5	India	746
6	Estonia	48
7	Brazil	24
8	Poland	21
9	Viet Nam	19
10	Argentina	13
11	Germany	11
12	Japan	10
13	Indonesia	10
14	Russian Federation	9
15	Kazakhstan	7
16	Taiwan	6
17	Turkey	6
18	Portugal	6
19	Pakistan	6
20	United Kingdom	6
21	Ukraine	5
22	Sri Lanka	5
23	Bangladesh	5
24	ZZ	4
25	Romania	4

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

Rank	Network	# of suspected botnet IPs
1	UNKNOWN	3686
2	VNPT-VNNIC-VN	1577
3	HINET-NET	1091
4	002.558.157/0001-62	1056
5	TELKOMNET	904
6	AT-88-Z	896
7	CHINANET-JS	797
8	CHINANET-GD	795
9	KORNET-KR	728
10	CMNET	699
11	MX-USCV4-LACNIC	557
12	TencentCloud	540
13	VE-CSVE-LACNIC	489
14	AMAZON-2011L	437
15	CHINANET-SC	338
16	NETVIGATOR	305
17	VIETEL-VNNIC-VN	303
18	FPT-VN	289
19	CHINANET-ZJ	289
20	CHINANET-SH	289
21	TENCENT-CN	288
22	UNICOM-SD	270
23	BSNLNET	263
24	BHARTI-IN	252
25	UNICOM-BJ	251

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

Rank	Network	# of blocked spams
1	CHINANET-ZJ	46303
2	CHINANET-TJ	27683
3	CO-ETBE-LACNIC	9224
4	NETVIGATOR	7785
5	UNKNOWN	60
6	AIRLINERES-CALPOP-COM	32
7	BSNLNET	24
8	WHF-NETWORK	17
9	AR-TAST-LACNIC	9
10	VNPT-VNNIC-VN	7
11	HINET-NET	5
12	BM-ID	5
13	BHARTI-IN	5
14	TVCABO	4
15	TELKOMNET	3
16	SCTV-VN	3
17	PTCLBB-PK	3
18	KW-KTC-20120412	3
19	FPT-VN	3
20	DIALOG-LK	3
21	hcmccable-net	2
22	broadNnet-KR	2
23	ZOL	2
24	UY-ANTA-LACNIC	2
25	TN-ATI-20100503	2

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

Rank	Network	recipient count of blocked spams
1	CHINANET-ZJ	1389090
2	CHINANET-TJ	830490
3	CO-ETBE-LACNIC	276720
4	NETVIGATOR	233550
5	AIRLINERES-CALPOP-COM	960
6	BSNLNET	720
7	UNKNOWN	68
8	CLOUDSTAR-NL-SR-VPS-01	40
9	WHF-NETWORK	17
10	FBDC-CIDR-BLK-JP	10
11	AR-TAST-LACNIC	9
12	VNPT-VNNIC-VN	7
13	HINET-NET	5
14	BM-ID	5
15	BHARTI-IN	5
16	TVCABO	4
17	FR-OVH-20120706	4
18	ESTROWEB-01	4
19	CLOUDSTAR-02	4
20	TELKOMNET	3
21	SCTV-VN	3
22	PTCLBB-PK	3
23	KW-KTC-20120412	3
24	FPT-VN	3
25	DIALOG-LK	3