[121818] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Countries with the most botnets
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Barnes)
Wed Jan 27 19:22:43 2010
In-Reply-To: <77ACDBE9-AFF1-4D40-B6B1-247590B4E836@cs.columbia.edu>
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:30 -0500
From: Richard Barnes <richard.barnes@gmail.com>
To: Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org list" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Team Cymru seems to put out a lot of information in their newsletters
about where bots are, e.g. this article about the locations of botnet
controllers:
<http://www.team-cymru.org/ReadingRoom/Articles/botnet-cnc-tlds-and-countri=
es.html>
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu> wrot=
e:
> 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.
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> Threat reports from symantec and macafee suggest the US leads, with
> China a very close second.
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> Yes, we realize that answers will be imperfect.
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