Botnet Statistics [2023-12-20]

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detection period: 2023-12-20 00:00-23:59 UTC
total number of suspected botnet IPs: 24218
number of botnet IPs notified to network operators (best case, if all mail were sent out successfully): 22530
number of spam blocked: 0
recipient count of spam blocked: 0

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

Rank	Network	# of suspected botnet IPs
1	GOOGLE-CLOUD	1051
2	ACEVILLEPTELTD-SG	1010
3	TencentCloud	870
4	ALISOFT	768
5	TENCENT-CN	607
6	DIGITALOCEAN-192-241-128-0	553
7	UNICOM-LN	534
8	BSNLNET	510
9	KORNET-KR	490
10	PAN-22	465

The top 10 countries (as defined by the 2-character country code), ordered by the number of suspected botnet IPs are:

Rank	Country/Region	# of suspected botnet IPs
1	China	6852
2	United States	5834
3	Singapore	1500
4	India	1243
5	South Korea	845
6	Russian Federation	696
7	Brazil	589
8	Hong Kong	579
9	Viet Nam	470
10	Indonesia	410

The top 10 TCP ports, ordered by the number of connection attempts received are:

Rank	TCP port number	# of connection attempts received
1	22	60270
2	2278	39578
3	2281	26396
4	445	24016
5	2231	16169
6	1212	15134
7	1221	14553
8	6000	14168
9	8022	13972
10	23	13205

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