Top 10 Countries Where Cyber Attacks Originate
A new list identifies countries launching the most online attacks.
Cybersecurity experts will probably not be surprised by new data from Cambridge, Mass.-based cloud platform provider Akamai. Its evaluation of global attack traffic in the last quarter of 2012, as reported by Bloomberg.com, has 41 percent originating in China, citing among other things, a "sophisticated hacker network."
Top Ten Hacking Countries
| 1. | China | 41 percent (of the world's attack traffic) |
| 2. | U.S. | 10 percent |
| 3. | Turkey | 4.7 percent |
| 4. | Russia | 4.3 percent |
| 5. | Taiwan | 3.7 percent |
| 6. | Brazil | 3.3 percent |
| 7. | Romania | 2.8 percent |
| 8. | India | 2.3 percent |
| 9. | Italy | 1.6 percent |
| 10. | Hungary | 1.4 percent |
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