Welcome to Barracuda Central

Welcome to Barracuda Central, an advanced technology center at Barracuda Networks consisting of highly trained engineers who continuously monitor and block the latest Internet threats and develop strategies to mitigate those threats. As new threats emerge, Barracuda Central is quick to respond to early outbreaks and delivers the latest definitions through automatic Barracuda Energize Updates. Energize Updates enables all Barracuda Networks products to block the latest spam, virus and other malware threats without the need of administration. Barracuda Central has the most diverse data corpus collection, drawing from submissions from more than 50,000 Barracuda Networks products in more than 80 countries and 17 languages. Barracuda Networks products are in use by customers, ranging from small/medium business, enterprises, ISP, government and schools throughout the world.

Worldwide Threat Activity

Email Threats 1

Latest Real-Time Virus Threats

  1. Worm.Somefool.AR
  2. BN.ZeroHour-11620418 (Mal/EncPk-CE)
  3. Worm.SomeFool.P
  4. Worm.Mytob.Crypt.Gen
  5. Worm.SomeFool.Q
  6. Worm.Gibe.F
  7. Worm.SomeFool.AD
  8. Worm.SomeFool.Gen-2
  9. BN.ZeroHour.BF (BN.ZeroHour.BF-5669807)
  10. BN.ZeroHour.BF (BN.ZeroHour.BF-5669792)
Last Updated 05/14/08 20:51:49 GMT

Top Spam Categories

  1. Online Pharmacies
  2. Replica Products
  3. Other Spam
  4. Software Sales
  5. Illegal Advertising
  6. Casino and Gaming
  7. Spam.Loans
  8. Credit and Debt Relief
  9. Job Offers
  10. Bank Phishing
Last Updated 05/14/08 20:52:01 GMT
1 As reported by Barracuda Spam Firewalls.

Web Threats 2

Top Blocked Spyware / Adware

  1. Adware.FunWebProducts
  2. Adware.180Solutions.Zango
  3. Adware.Toolbar.MySearch.MyWebSearch
  4. Adware.AdFlow
  5. Adware.Toolbar.7FaSSt
  6. Adware.WhenU
  7. Adware.Toolbar.MySearch.MyWay
  8. Trojan.Misc.Exploit.Host
  9. Adware.nCase
Last Updated 05/14/08 20:51:40 GMT

Top Blocked Websites

  1. doubleclick.net
  2. l.yimg.com
  3. googlesyndication.com
  4. rad.msn.com
  5. ads1.msn.com
  6. ad.yieldmanager.com
  7. atwola.com
  8. revsci.net
  9. messenger.hotmail.com
  10. quantserve.com
Last Updated 05/14/08 20:51:40 GMT
2 As reported by Barracuda Web Filters.

Worldwide Barracuda Spam Firewall Activity

Hourly Email Activity over last 24 Hours
Stats for Processed Email (Hourly)
Allowed
Allowed: Tagged
Quarantined
Blocked: Virus
Blocked: Spam
* All times in Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)  

Hourly Email Activity Details over last 12 Hours

Time (GMT) Total Allowed Tagged Quarantined Virus Blocked Percent
Bad Email
09:00 99,679,333 4,405,567 652,888 601,131 11,831 94,007,636 95.58%
10:00 101,843,026 4,590,754 661,530 609,599 10,273 95,970,836 95.49%
11:00 103,081,444 4,927,277 789,901 697,520 11,437 96,655,264 95.22%
12:00 105,379,735 4,870,000 777,737 698,234 12,627 99,021,101 95.38%
13:00 113,005,744 6,114,717 880,840 799,807 22,045 105,188,268 94.59%
14:00 121,376,023 8,198,056 1,055,383 961,149 17,731 111,143,658 93.25%
15:00 124,865,733 9,626,103 1,015,482 1,003,733 14,646 113,205,607 92.29%
16:00 123,420,345 10,306,776 1,052,888 931,930 15,527 111,112,520 91.65%
17:00 118,606,395 9,788,062 884,669 830,893 17,039 107,085,032 91.75%
18:00 115,818,276 8,852,073 827,689 801,203 11,316 105,325,865 92.36%
19:00 107,927,327 8,770,157 818,107 775,955 8,144 97,554,885 91.87%
20:00 104,424,010 8,755,072 872,900 721,055 8,791 94,066,058 91.62%
* All times in Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)