USA Tops List for Botnet Attack Source
USA Tops List for Botnet Attack Source
Sept 2008 The United States was the top source of distributed attack traffic, originating nearly three times as many attacks as second-place China, according to a recent study by security service provider SecureWorks Inc. The figures are based on identified attacks attempted against the company's 2,000 customers so far in 2008. The bad guys launching the attacks were not always based in this country, but they used compromised computers in the United States to form botnets as platforms for the attacks. According to SecureWorks, 20.6 million attacks originated from U.S. computers and 7.7 million from Chinese computers. "It clearly shows that the United States and China have a lot of vulnerable computers that have been compromised and are being used as bots to launch cyberattacks," said Hunter King, a security researcher at SecureWorks. "This should be a warning to organizations and personal computer users that not only are they putting their own computers and networks at risk by not securing them, they are providing these cybercriminals with a platform from which to compromise other computers." By William Jackson
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