[121816] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Countries with the most botnets
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Raveendran Greene)
Wed Jan 27 18:28:33 2010
From: "Barry Raveendran Greene" <bgreene@senki.org>
To: "'Steven Bellovin'" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>,
<nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <77ACDBE9-AFF1-4D40-B6B1-247590B4E836@cs.columbia.edu>
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:28:00 -0800
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The Conficker data would be one empirical source you can look at. You have a
break down by ASN and Country:
http://www.shadowserver.org/wiki/pmwiki.php/Stats/Conficker
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven Bellovin [mailto:smb@cs.columbia.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 3:08 PM
> To: nanog@nanog.org list
> Subject: Countries with the most botnets
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> A colleague needs to know, along with citable sources if possible.
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> Ideally - number of zombified PCs, percentage of zombified PCs, name of
> nation, source.
>
> Threat reports from symantec and macafee suggest the US leads, with
> China a very close second.
>
> Yes, we realize that answers will be imperfect.
>
> --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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