Tag Archives: stats

Where’s the badware?

Over at social shopping site StyleFeeder, Philip Jacob posted some stats about the geographic origins of spammy accounts. It turns out that the majority of the spam accounts created on StyleFeeder come from IP addresses in India. This reminded me … Continue reading

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October infected network stats

In June we released "a report":http://www.stopbadware.org/home/badwebs with numbers from late May, showing the network blocks containing the largest numbers of badware sites reported by Google. We released updated in "July":http://blogs.stopbadware.org/articles/2008/07/30/updated-infection-stats and "August":http://blog.stopbadware.org/2008/08/25/top-infected-network-blocks-for-mid-august. Here is another update from early October: |_.# … Continue reading

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Top infected IP addresses for mid-August

In addition to the updated list of “infected network blocks”:http://blogs.stopbadware.org/articles/2008/08/25/top-infected-network-blocks-for-mid-august that we just posted, we also offer this list of the top 10 infected IP addresses: |_.# of badware sites |_.IP address |_.AS block name | |2778|72.14.207.191| GOOGLE – Google … Continue reading

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Top infected network blocks for mid-August

In June we released “a report”:http://www.stopbadware.org/home/badwebs with numbers from late May, showing the network blocks containing the largest numbers of badware sites reported by Google. In July, we released “an udpate”:http://blogs.stopbadware.org/articles/2008/07/30/updated-infection-stats. Here is another update from mid-August: |_.# of badware … Continue reading

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Updated infection stats

In June we released “a report”:http://www.stopbadware.org/home/badwebs with numbers from late May, showing the network blocks containing the largest numbers of badware sites reported by Google. Here are updated numbers from early July: |_.# of badware sites |_.AS block name | … Continue reading

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Commtouch: Zombie PCs are everywhere

A “new report”:http://www.commtouch.com/documents/Commtouch_Q208_Email_Trends.pdf [pdf] from Commtouch, an e-mail security vendor, indicates that “zombies” (PCs infected with bots that send spam and malware) are geographically much more dispersed than “we found”:http://blogs.stopbadware.org/articles/2008/06/24/china-hosts-majority-of-badware-sites infected websites to be. Turkey led the world by a … Continue reading

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Commentary on top infection stats

Oliver posted some “great”:http://blogs.stopbadware.org/articles/2008/04/05/infections-stats-for-march-2008 “stats”:http://blogs.stopbadware.org/articles/2008/04/05/top-infected-asn-for-march-2008 early this morning showing the networks and individual IP addresses with the largest number of infected sites. Some might be wondering why Google appears so high on a list of sites that Google itself has … Continue reading

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Top Infected ASN for March 2008

Infections AS Name 67771 CHINANET-BACKBONE No.31,Jin-rong Street 24540 CHINA169-BACKBONE CNCGROUP China169 Backbone 13263 CHINANET-SH-AP China Telecom (Group) 8222 DXTNET Beijing Dian-Xin-Tong Network Technologies Co., Ltd. 7602 CNCNET-CN China Netcom Corp. 3772 GOOGLE – Google Inc. 3455 THEPLANET-AS – ThePlanet.com Internet … Continue reading

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Top Infected IP Addresses for March 2008

IP Address Infections CC AS Name 72.14.207.191 3722 US GOOGLE – Google Inc. 60.28.237.31 1403 CN CHINA169-BACKBONE CNCGROUP China169 Backbone 218.244.143.169 1201 CN DXTNET Beijing Dian-Xin-Tong Network Technologies Co., Ltd. 209.63.57.10 1050 US INTEGRATELECOM – Integra Telecom, Inc. 205.178.145.65 848 … Continue reading

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See the top pages in our Clearinghouse

One of the most popular resources at StopBadware is our Badware Website Clearinghouse, which has information about websites that have been reported as potentially harmful by one of our partners. The Clearinghouse pages for websites that Google has flagged also … Continue reading

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