Russia has bypassed the U.S. as the top source for malicious attack traffic in the fourth quarter of 2010, according to data from Akamai Technologies’ latest State of the Internet report.
The report, which uses data collected from hundreds of millions of connections to Akamai Internet Platform servers, Russia was responsible for 12 percent of attack traffic while the U.S. dropped to fifth place globally with 7.3 percent of the observed attack traffic.
Taiwan (7.6 percent), Brazil (7.5 percent) and China (7.4 percent) rounded out the top five.
The report, which focused on quarter-to-quarter trends, also found that attack traffic concentration among the top 10 targeted ports dropped significantly from the third quarter, with the top 10 ports responsible for just 72% of the observed attacks (down from 87% in the third quarter of 2010).
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/akamai-russia-responsible-for-12-of-malicious-attack-traffic/8582
