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Correct me if I'm wrong but looks like a marketing stunt, there is nothing "realtime" about it, check the network log. While it's all nice and flashy with nice transitions, there is no way you can follow what's going on. The only information that is readable are country statistics.

Galncing at the source it seems that all the "updates" are just startup number + random value.

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I looked through the source code. Not totally sure, but it appears they use the current time to dynamically load events from this API:

http://cybermap.kaspersky.com/data/events/1.json

(where "1" would be replaced with some time value)

Edit: investigating a bit more, there are 24 URLs for http://cybermap.kaspersky.com/data/events/<H>.json where <H> starts at zero. So you can see if tomorrow the files are all different. It could very well be near-time, maybe with 1 hour of lag/caching.

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