Spamhaus Botnet Summary 2014

Spamhaus DBL (2014) statistics report summarizing 3,793 botnet C&C domains detected in 2014, the most-abused TLDs (notably .com, .ru, .net, .su), and registrars most frequently used by cybercriminals. The report discusses how criminals register domains for resilient botnet operations, highlights registrars with high proportions of malicious registrations, and explains how registrar and registry cooperation (or lack thereof) affects takedown efforts and risk to end users.