Compare cybersecurity risks in the U.S. and another country.

 The internet is scattered with many reports and posts about the top cybercrime countries, the biggest source of cyber attacks, and the most likely home of residence for cyber criminals themselves. Multiple cyber security firms regularly release detailed reports on the state of cyber crime activities within their networks, often including a section on countries. Symantec has created an index of cyber crime activity that includes hosting malware, botnets, phishing server hosting, and how many botnet command and control servers there are within each nation. The top five nations on the index include the US, China, Brazil, Germany, and India. The United States is targeted the most by phishing attacks, suffering 60% of worldwide phishing volumes. The United States also deals with email spam that is a common attack vector for multiple types of cyber crimes. Today spams make up 72% of all emails sent worldwide. Over half of all internet traffic in general, not just that of email traffic, is actually spam. A bonnet is a network or cluster of malware-infected machines that the cyber criminal can control remotely over the internet. The victim that owns the infected computer is unaware of the bonnet installation, so the bonnet master can use as many internet-connected computers that are infected with at least one bonnet. China is a main country that is known for hosting bonnets. Where the US isn’t really known for bonnets. As the US goes toward more of a technology route there are going to be way more risk to deal with then other countries as today we are the second most country to deal with technology. Then you have countries like China that have to deal with a lot of cyber risk. The US is still trying to get funds for the cybersecurity so the risk wouldn’t be so high when you have multiple countries  trying to attack one country. 

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