PRLog (Press Release)– Apr 14, 2011– HostExploit continues its quarterly series of reports in an analysis of the world's worst hosts for malicious activity – including spam, botnets, badware, phishing attacks and infections.
The Top 50 Bad Hosts and Networks Report Q1 2011 looks at the fallout from major hacks and intrusions such as the LizaMoon SQL attacks and the takedown of the Rustock botnet. The industry's perspective is explored as well as asking what it means for the hosts themselves. Other pertinent topics discussed include Advance remote control helicopter d Persistent Threats (APT), mobile malware and 32-bit ASNs.
A major feature of the report is the fluctuating levels of malicious activity over the three months from January to March 2011. For example, the impact of spam over this period of time is analyzed in the context of the Rustock botnet takedown.
There have been significant decrea best rc helicopter buy sell market place ses in the levels of spam being churned out by some service providers. Of particular note is the 96 percent decrease by Russian mobile internet provider AS42115 Bashcell.
The main purpose of the 'Top 50 Bad Hosts and Networks' series, as always, is to reveal the hosts that cybercriminals are using to serve their nefarious operations. In publishing this information it is hoped that these "worst" hosts will take the measures needed to actively 'clean up' the output of malicious activity from their networks.
In this respect this quarter's "winner" of the title for 'Top Bad Host' is the Russian-based host Webalta AS41947. The situation on Webalta's servers has steadily worsened over the last few months, and it has come in at #1 overall without being ranked #1 in any of the specific badness categories. This is a result of being highly-ranked in a broad array of sectors, which suggests extremely slack abuse procedures.
Co-incidentally it would seem, last quarter's winner 'Volgahost' As29106 had a very short lifespan after the release of the Q4 2010 Report as this hosting provider was taken offline in January 2011.
Highlights of the report:
• #1 'Bad Host' is the Russian-based Webalta AS41947 showing poor results over a broad array of sectors. • #1 Good Host is AS2688 Asattca AT&T Global Network Services, a US based company with global headquarters in Dallas. • Of the top 5 hosts for spam decreases two are based in Russia, one each in Brazil, Bosnia Herzegovina, and Yemen. • 5 hosts based in the Ukraine are in the top 20 for the biggest decreases in spam • 27 forms of mobile badware were detected over this period i.e. Mitmo (ZeuS, smartphone variant), Android.Pjapps, Ikee-B (Apple) etc. • Spam from AS50693 Konsing Group (Serbia) increased by an incredible 15,701 percent.
Regular features include reports on crime servers, biggest movers, good hosts and country analysis, all of which can be found in the full version of the report. Additionally, new items such as mobile malware and pocket botnets, together with Advance Persistent Threats give up-to-date information about the dangers posed from the changing landscape of cyber security threats.
The HE full report is available for download here: http://hostexploit.com/downloads/viewdownload/4-reports/ ...
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