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United States Tops List of Countries Hosting Malware and Botnets

The United States continues to host more malware and botnets than any other country, including Russia and China. One-quarter of all command-and-control servers that are used to control botnets are hosted in the U.S., IBM’s latest X-Force Threat Intelligence Quarterly report says. Hong Kong emerges as the leader for hosting malicious sites, with a somewhat startling infection rate of 11 percent of all installed systems. Lithuania tops the list of nations hosting the largest number of C&Cs, followed by a slew of Eastern European nations.”]

Source: https://securityintelligence.com/news/us-tops-list-of-countries-hosting-malware-and-botnets/

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