Botnet Statistics [2023-12-31]

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detection period: 2023-12-31 00:00-23:59 UTC
total number of suspected botnet IPs: 25968
number of botnet IPs notified to network operators (best case, if all mail were sent out successfully): 24346
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	ALISOFT	1107
2	GOOGLE-CLOUD	1057
3	TencentCloud	1044
4	ACEVILLEPTELTD-SG	1031
5	UNICOM-LN	750
6	TENCENT-CN	670
7	DIGITALOCEAN-192-241-128-0	572
8	PAN-22	464
9	UCLOUD-HK	462
10	CHINANET-JS	455

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	8735
2	United States	6203
3	Singapore	1446
4	India	906
5	Hong Kong	739
6	Russian Federation	640
7	Brazil	612
8	South Korea	611
9	Viet Nam	358
10	United Kingdom	353

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

Rank	TCP port number	# of connection attempts received
1	8022	107541
2	2222	94851
3	22	64416
4	6000	56561
5	5022	45769
6	222	33812
7	10000	28220
8	3022	27723
9	1022	27450
10	7094	23888

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