Re: Countries with the most botnets

[Richard Barnes <richard.barnes () gmail com>]

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-countries.html>

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Steven Bellovin <smb () cs columbia edu> wrote:
> 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