Today’s India Times article on malware statistics has an almost boastful tone as they say India is no. 3 haven for hackers

The country saw an average of 788 bots per day during 2009. Bots are malwares that turn computers into zombies and there were 62,623 distinct bot-infected computers observed in the country during 2009. Amongst the cities in India with the highest number of bot-infected computers, Mumbai figured at the top with 50% followed by Delhi at 13% and Hyderabad at 7%.

The recipe for malware growth, both in terms of infection and generation, comes from network speed and ubiquity of hardware.

Symantec suggests this briefly in their April 2010 Global Internet Security Threat Report.

Brazil’s significant increases across all categories
are related to the growing internet infrastructure and broadband usage there.

How much growth? Over what period? The more systems connected, in other words, with high-speed access the more malware you should expect. The article does not give this analysis, nor does Symantec. The more interesting statistic would be the percentage of total systems infected relative to the total number of people with systems and the rate of change, instead of just who has the most infected systems.