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Botnet used to census the entire IPv4 internet

The Carna botnet was a botnet of 420,000 devices created by an anonymous hacker to measure the extent of the Internet in what the creator called the “Internet Census of 2012”.

Data collection

The data was collected by infiltrating Internet devices, especially routers, that used a default password or no password at all.^[1][2] It was named after Carna, "the Roman goddess for the protection of inner organs and health".^[3]

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

The data gathered included only the IPv4 address space and not the IPv6 address space.^[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]

Results

Of the 4.3 billion possible IPv4 addresses, Carna Bot