Study Finds Spain Most Bot-Infected Country, Sweden Among Least Infected

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Study Finds Spain Most Bot-Infected Country, Sweden Among Least Infected

By CircleID Reporter
November 05, 2009, 4:24 pm PST Views: 4,857 Add Comment

According to a recent security report, Spain and the United States are the leading countries when comes to bot-infected computers. Based on data compiled from October by PandaLabs, the research arm of Panda Security, an alarming 44.49% of computers in Spain are infected with bots and United States—a long way behind—at 14.41%, followed by Mexico 9.37% and Brazil 4.81%. Countries least infected include Peru, the Netherlands and Sweden, all with ratios under 1 percent.

According to Luis Corrons, Technical Director of PandaLabs, “Along with rogueware, botnets and zombie computers have increased by more than 30 percent so far this year. This is the simplest way for a hacker to take control of computers to distribute spam or malware, therefore making it more difficult to trace and detect the real culprit. The problem is that owners of these zombie computers will be committing crimes without realizing it, and could face having their services withdrawn by their ISPs or even prosecution.”

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