27 Jan
2010
27 Jan
'10
7:22 p.m.
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