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Monday, February 7, 2011

Botnet Statistics [2011-02-06]

As botnets have become the tool of choice when hackers commit cyber crime, what we do to mitigate botnets are really preventive measures against future cyber incidents indeed. Many security experts have expressed worries over even larger DDoS attacks and cyber threats this year, but if we can keep botnets at bay through detection and notification, we should be fine.

detection period: 2011-02-06 00:00-23:59 UTC
total number of suspected botnet IPs: 1779
number of botnet IPs notified to network operators: 1340
number of blocked spams: 228446
recipient count of blocked spams: 5773274

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

RankNetwork# of suspected botnet IPs
1HINET-NET219
2UNICOM-BJ196
3CHINANET-GD175
4PTCL54
5BSNLNET38
6VNPT-VNNIC-VN30
7CRTC29
8KORNET-KR27
9002.558.134/0001-5823
10TELKOMNET22

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

RankCountry# of suspected botnet IPs
1China505
2Taiwan226
3Brazil128
4India108
5Russian Federation91
6Pakistan61
7Ukraine56
8Indonesia51
9Viet Nam39
10South Korea39

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