BotNets: Visualization of the spread of just one

[David Baxter PhD]

ZeroAccess: We're Gonna Need a Bigger Planet
by Sean, F-Secure
Monday, September 17, 2012

Some botnets are so big… you can see them from space (or at least, Google Earth).

Here's what the ZeroAccess botnet looks like in Europe:


Click here for an expanded view (1680x1030).

More to follow — just as soon as we scare up some additional RAM to render the more than 140,000 unique IP address that we've discovered thus far.

 

[David Baxter PhD]

The United States of ZeroAccess
by Sean, F-Secure
September 21, 2012

Monday's post included a screenshot of the ZeroAccess botnet as visualized in Google Earth. Well, we've finished cleaning up the KML file which now includes 139,447 bot locations based on IP addresses associated with approximately 2,600 samples.

ZeroAccess is a very large botnet and there are millions of infections globally.

Here's the USA:


Click here for a larger view.

Here's Europe:


Click here for a larger image.