The Threat Landscape in Belarus: Highest Concentration of Malware Hosting Servers

I recently wrote an article examining the concentrations of malware hosting servers located in different regions of the world.  As seen in Figure 1, Belarus and China, had the highest concentrations of malware hosting sites per 1,000 Internet hosts in the second quarter of 2012 (2Q12), based on data from the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report volume 13.  Naturally, this led to a few people asking me for more details on what has been happening in these locations.  I recently published an article with more details on China called, The Threat Landscape in China: A Paradox.  This article focuses on Belarus.

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