Carna botnet

[3] Collected data was compiled into a GIF portrait to display Internet use around the world over the course of 24 hours.

[4][5] The Carna Botnet creator believes that with a growing number of IPv6 hosts on the Internet, 2012 may have been the last time a census like this was possible.

[3] Of the 4.3 billion possible IPv4 addresses, Carna Botnet found a total of 1.3 billion addresses in use, including 141 million that were behind a firewall and 729 million that returned reverse domain name system records.

[7][8] The data provided by the Carna botnet was used by security researcher Morgan Marquis-Boire to determine in how many countries FinFisher spyware was being used.

[9] Amongst other, Carna Botnet counted the number of hosts with reverse DNS names observed from May to October 2012.

World map of 24-hour relative average utilization of IPv4 addresses observed using ICMP ping requests by Carna botnet, June - October 2012