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Alarming statistics on attacks by US and foreign hackers

  • Team Omega
  • January 14, 2014

Thought I should share these interesting statistics I came across in one of the security magazines.

Top 5 attacks used by U.S. hackers

  1. Zero access trojan
  2. Butterfly botnet
  3. ZeuS trojan
  4. Allaple.A worm
  5. Pushdo trojan

Top 5 attacks used by foreign hackers

  1. Zero Access trojan
  2. Rerdom trojan
  3. Pusho trojan
  4. ZeuS trojan
  5. Gamarue trojan

Sources of these hackers and attacks:
There were 73, 547, 724 attacks in the US last month primarily originating from Phoenix, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and Dallas.

There were 277,303,373 foreign attacks last month primarily originating from Tokyo; Sao Paulo, Brazil; Taipei, Taiwan; Caracas, Venezuela; and Mumbai, India.

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