When you’re operating publicly accessible web applications, your infrastructure is constantly under threat from malicious bots, scanners, and exploit attempts. But here’s the surprising part: a large portion of that hostile traffic comes from just a handful of countries. At FraudGuard.io, just this month our Attack Correlation Engine (ACE) has tracked nearly 5 million attacker IPs via our global honeypot network—and the results are crystal clear.

The Top 10 Countries Sending Attack Traffic

Here’s a breakdown of the top 10 countries by volume of attack activity recorded across our honeypots:

Country Attack Volume % of Total Attacks
United States 812118 16.24%
China 306630 6.13%
Russia 190152 3.80%
India 144400 2.89%
Germany 130693 2.61%
United Kingdom 94183 1.88%
Singapore 88148 1.76%
Ukraine 86816 1.74%
Vietnam 76677 1.53%
France 63700 1.27%

Collectively, these ten countries are responsible for nearly 40% of the malicious traffic observed across FraudGuard.io’s global honeypot network.

Why Country-Based Filtering Matters

Not all web traffic is created equal—and not every business needs to accept traffic from every country. For example, if your organization does not operate in or serve customers from Russia, there is little justification for allowing Russian-based IPs to access your infrastructure. If your customer base is primarily located in the United States or Europe, allowing unrestricted global access can expose your systems to unnecessary risk, particularly from regions with a high concentration of malicious traffic.

By using geolocation-based traffic filtering, you can:

  • Reduce your attack surface by blocking traffic from countries where you have no users or customers.
  • Improve performance by reducing load on your firewalls, load balancers, and backend services.
  • Prevent targeted abuse like credential stuffing, vulnerability scanning, or API scraping.
  • Lower costs by reducing egress traffic and downstream compute usage caused by bots.

How FraudGuard.io Helps

At FraudGuard.io, we make country-based filtering easy to implement and highly effective.

Geoblocking API

Use our Geoblocking API to programmatically block or challenge traffic from specific countries in real time. Fully customizable by country, region, or use case.

Real-Time IP Threat Intelligence

Don’t rely on static lists. FraudGuard’s IP classification updates continuously, ensuring that your infrastructure reacts to new threats as they emerge.

Load Balancer and WAF Integration

Easily integrate with AWS WAF, Cloudflare, NGINX, and other edge services using our raw IP list exports, organized by country, risk level, or threat type.

Custom Lists Management

Need to make exceptions for partner services or internal tools? FraudGuard lets you manage custom whitelists and blacklists with ease.

Try It Free

We offer a 14-day free trial with full access to our IP intelligence tools, APIs, and dashboards. You’ll be amazed at how much malicious traffic you can block—and how much smoother your application will run.

Start filtering smarter. Protect your infrastructure today.
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