Level 3 Communications reports that America is the home for more server commands and botnet control, followed by Ukraine, and Russia in second and third place.
The servers command and control, are used to manage botnets, and usually manage to operate for an average of 30 days or so before being stopped by providers, or local police authorities.
Research by Level 3 Communications reports that the servers of USA they are used a lot as command and control servers botnets as they provide reliable network infrastructure.
Let's say that all of these servers are not legal but have been tampered with and used by botnets without their owners knowing it.
"On average, 20 percent of botnets command and control servers are located in North America, while the same percentage come from Ukraine and Russia combined," the study said.PDF].
The United Kingdom has the sixth place on the list, while Australia is not included in the global report attended by 1000 administration and control servers in the first quarter of 2015.
It is noteworthy that 600 of the botnets monitored by Level 3 used corporate networks.
"It seems uncontrollable that command and control servers have the potential to disrupt business and destroy assets. data and vital information.”
Level 3 describes in its report some of the latest botnet threats such as bot SSHPsychos that accounted for 35% of total SSH traffic.
This bot has stopped working at Level 3 together with Cisco Talos, which has stopped automated SSH brute-force attacks against Linux servers.
