We are pleased to unveil two new data reports, based on the data provided by Google and Sunbelt Software to our Badware Website Clearinghouse and information that we’ve pulled from Team Cymru’s public IP to ASN mapping service. One report lists the 50 Autonomous Systems (AS) hosting the greatest number of reported badware URLs. Set up like a stock ticker chart, it also displays the percent daily change in the number of URLs reported on each AS and the 52-week highs and lows for each AS. (Though the data starts in July, 2009, so it’s not yet reflecting 52 weeks.) See the Top 50 report here. There is also a link to it from the left-side navigation bar on the StopBadware.org home page.
The second report, available for any individual AS in our Clearinghouse, shows a graph of the number of reported badware URLs hosted by the AS over time. See an example here, search for an AS by number here, or click more info next to any AS in the Top 50 report for detail on that AS.
Both reports are updated daily and offer the ability to download the data in CSV format. We also wrote up a brief explanation of how to interpret the data in the reports.
We hope that both reports will be valuable to researchers, network operators, and others interested in observing web-based malware trends. Please let us know what you think by sending us a note at contact @ stopbadware dot org.
