Pushdo Sinkholing Continues, Size of Problem now Apparent

The sinkholing of Pushdo C&C domains continues and it has become apparent that the botnet is of quite sizeable proportions and pretty well spread globally – although some interesting prevalence patterns can be discerned in the new map provided by Bitdefender researchers, summarizing the connection attempts in the past 24 hours.

As can be seen, Asia is the most affected continent, in a sharp departure from the spreading patterns of other botnets which simply stay proportional with Internet connectivity in the affected countries.

The most affected countries, by number of unique IPs attempting to connect for the past day, are, in order:

The research project is still ongoing and further data will be made available in the following days.