RE: Countries with the most botnets

["Barry Raveendran Greene" <bgreene () senki org>]

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
>
> A colleague needs to know, along with citable sources if possible.
>
> 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