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US and Russia Lead List of Malware Hosts
Trailrunner7 writes "China has become the go-to bogeyman behind every cyber attack or malware campaign, but if you're looking for the most malicious hosting providers on the Web, you won't find any of the top 10 in China. In fact, the United States and Russia have many more bad hosting providers in the top 20 than China does. ... [One] interesting data point is the appearance of Amazon in the top 10 list of providers hosting the highest concentration of infected Web sites. These are the kind of sites used in drive-by download attacks and to deliver exploits from exploit packs. Amazon, with more than two million IPs, ranks fourth in the list of providers hosting infected sites. Also on that list is Google, which comes in at number seven. The top spot belongs to Mail.ru, a Russian hosting provider."
Around here that's like calling beetlejuice
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Many many networks that I've dealt with have essentially blacklisted Chinese IP ranges, so it makes sense for anyone looking to setup a malware site to use a "legit" hosting service. They don't care if it stays up for more than a few months, in most cases.
What would be much more interesting is data on *who* is registering and setting up all of these sites, rather than where.
We must continue building more Malware Hosts!
We must not allow a Malware Host gap!
why do the mods not delete this shit?
Way to lower the bar everyone.
In fact, the United States and Russia have many more bad hosting providers in the top 20 than China does.
Because:
In fact, the United States and Russia have many more hosting providers in the top 20 than China does.
Perhaps that makes it harder to host malware in China? Duh
Thereby, I'm not surprised at all by the findings. How is the US beating Russia 5-4 on this though, Russian internet has been the black market of the web pretty much and has hosted every single crack, hack, and exploit known to the internet at some point. I wonder if they rounded them all up and sent them to siberia between then and now. They're capable of doing that too.
Fuck yeah!!!
hello, You must be new here
A bogeyman is an imaginary entity. It is not the same as a scapegoat.
Because /. doesn't just delete shit. It's part of what makes this site what it is. I say this as someone who browses at -1 all the time. Now, if you want to advocate truncating posts with a 'read the rest of the comment' link, I'll support that.
I work for a midsize eCommerce hosting firm as the Sysadmin and have been in this position for 8 years. 100% of the DDoS attacks, spam attacks, etc are originating in China, North Korea, Turkey, and Russia. All day, every day, year after year. There have been zero against our data center from within the US. Just my two cents on this. So sure, maybe US hosting companies have more malware sites or phishing scams, but the actual cyber attacks against the US are from the nations I've listed.
It's 'choose your own adventure' time for Governments and evil orgs:
http://buggedplanet.info/
Let the Wikileaks Spy Files sink in deeply.
READ IT UNTIL YOU LOVE IT.
I believe all anti-* scanners whitelist a lot [of 0days] at the feet of their masters in Gov.
How about a new mod value. -2APK
I have copied and pasted one troll and thereby triggered another, equally egregious rant from the other troll. I also receive the triple troll bonus for having the copied troll come and paste a troll response to the troll responding to my mock post. I submit this as my interpretation of Slashdot's native art style. Apologies to all I offended, but I hope I win an award.
"Say good night, Gracie."
"Good night, Gracie."
Oh, and Anti-APK? Thanks for participating. That's a lovely idea, a BTC tip jar! Me too!
Tipping is not a city in China: 18pzfMyde2BcuDQ5HjzHXc9kmYmDkv1z2Z
The preceding comment is my own, and in no way construes an opinon of the Emperor of Mankind.
I will give $10,000.00 to frost pister who can disprove MyCleanPC.
Done. Apparently it's just a poorly written registry cleaner, and CCleaner works better for no charge. You can send the 10,000 USD reward through PayPal to ebay(at)pineight.com.
Oh, and Time Cube's four simultaneous 24-hour days offset by a quarter of a day are just time zones. What do New York, London, Beijing, and Honolulu experience?
Have you thought of correlating this poster to known pest posts? If the text shows a high degree of correlation, reject it as "redundant".
At least make this pest go through the trouble of at least coming up with an original post.
Or maybe give moderators a "pest" moderation, which would carry a heavy penalty - like giving you max negative karma - for misuse. And it would be well known that all uses of the "pest" moderation will be metamodded by the Slashdot sysadmin. This way we all can share in the elimination of this pest. Many hands make for a light load. The "pest" moderation would immediately kill subsequent display of the offending post to everyone unless metamodded back into existence. Giving us authority to completely kill off a post is a great responsibility and should carry an equally heavy liability for its misuse.
timecube parody ftw :]
Do you realize that this top 10 list is based on illegal activity and not number of subscribers or IPs or anything else?
But hey, don't let facts get in the way of your logic...
Love all patriotic morons upvoting parent.