US Responsible For the Majority of Cyber Attacks

Amber G5 writes "SecureWorks published the locations of the computers from which the greatest number of cyber attacks were attempted against its clients in 2008. The United States topped the list with 20.6 million attempted attacks originating from computers within the country, and China ran second with 7.7 million attempted attacks emanating from computers within its borders. This was followed by Brazil with over 166,987 attempted attacks, South Korea with 162,289, Poland with 153,205, Japan with 142,346, Russia with 130,572, Taiwan with 124,997, Germany with 110,493, and Canada with 107,483."

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More in US than Reported

[BountyX]

Many of the attacks originating from China are actually from the US as well. Many US hackers find it easy to compromise chinese machines and use those machines for whatever they need. I'm willing to bet a hand full of Chinese attacks are actually originating from the US as hackers seek to use easily compromised machines that are unlikly to work with the US (politically) if the US asks for connection info from an ISP. As a result, a lot of US originated hack trails stop in china.