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US launches most cyber attacks

The US has topped the list of countries from which the most cyber attacks were attempted from, new research has shown.

According to the list from SecureWorks, based on the number of attacks registered by its clients, 20.6 million attempted attacks originated from computers based in the US.

China came in second with 7.7 million attempted attacks emanating from computers within its borders followed by Brazil with over 166,987, South Korea, Poland, Japan, Russia, Taiwan, Germany and Canada.

"We believe these statistics are significant because it clearly shows that the United States and China have a lot of vulnerable computers that have been compromised and are being used as bots to launch cyber attacks," said Hunter King, security researcher for SecureWorks.

"This should be a warning to organisations and personal computer users that, not only are they putting their computers and networks at risk by not securing them, but they are actually providing these cyber criminals with a platform from which to compromise other computers."

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