Pink P2P Botnet Scale Transparency Register

PROBLEM: Pink, tracked by 360 Netlab and NSFOCUS, is the largest peer-to-peer botnet on record — more than 1.6 million infected devices, the great majority in China, mostly MIPS-based fiber and broadband routers — and it distributed commands through public channels including GitHub and Baidu Tieba. A botnet of that scale operating through public infrastructure has no transparency register, so its size is known only to the researchers tracking it.

SOLUTION: An IBM Cloud Ideas compliance improvement that maintains a P2P botnet scale transparency register: the infection count, the device mix, the public channels used for command distribution, and the regions affected, so the largest botnets are measured in the open instead of in private tracking alone.

EVIDENCE BASIS: DOCUMENTED — 360 Netlab / NSFOCUS: Pink is the largest tracked P2P botnet, 1.6 million+ infected devices, mostly in China, primarily MIPS-based fiber/broadband routers; commands distributed via GitHub, Baidu Tieba, and other public channels.