August 25th, 2014, 09:51 GMT · By Ionut Ilascu

 

Based on information collected from honeypots deployed in public cloud infrastructures across the globe, a company observed that most of the machines frequently targeting the US are located in China, the US, India, and Russia.



Details from Alert Logic, a company providing Security-as-a-Service solutions in the cloud, show that in 32% of the cyber-attacks directed at the United States the computer systems used were located in China.



Coming in second place was the US itself, as 21% of the machines used for the attacks were identified in its territory. However, this does not mean that the attackers were in the US, only that they used systems in this country.

 

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