{"id":2424,"date":"2013-01-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/01\/27\/the-united-states-is-a-hive-for-botnets\/"},"modified":"2021-12-30T11:41:18","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T11:41:18","slug":"the-united-states-is-a-hive-for-botnets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/01\/27\/the-united-states-is-a-hive-for-botnets\/","title":{"rendered":"The United States is a hive for botnets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>McAfee Labs research has revealed that the United States of America is the world&#8217;s number one country for hosting active botnet command servers, beating out other contenders on the list by a huge margin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Second on the list is, surprisingly, the British Virgin Islands in the Caribbean.  Third on the list is The Netherlands with 154, which contributes to a hotspot of botnet command servers in that region of Europe amounting to 270 servers; the most dense of any region in the world.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.neowin.net\/news\/the-united-states-is-a-hive-for-botnets?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+neowin-main+%28Neowin+News%29<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-warnings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4911,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424\/revisions\/4911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}