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. BN.ZeroHour-20735480 (Mal/EncPk-CE)
  2. Worm.SomeFool.P
  3. Worm.Mytob.A
  4. Worm.SomeFool.X
  5. BN.ZeroHour-21045489 (Mal/EncPk-CE)
  6. Worm.Mytob.NK
  7. Worm.SomeFool.D
  8. BN.ZeroHour-271373-271373-271373-271373-271373-271 (BN.ZeroHour-271373)
  9. Worm.SomeFool.AM
  10. W32.Sality.Q-1
Last Updated 07/09/08 05:16:55 GMT

Top Spam Categories

  1. Online Pharmacies
  2. Replica Products
  3. Virus Phishing
  4. Casino and Gaming
  5. Other Spam
  6. Adult Related
  7. Illegal Advertising
  8. Software Sales
  9. Job Offers
  10. Bank Phishing
Last Updated 07/09/08 05:17:01 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.Myway
  4. Adware.Toolbar.MySearch.MyWebSearch
  5. Adware.SurveyPoll
  6. Adware.AdFlow
  7. Spyware.Tracking.Disney
  8. Trojan.Misc.Exploit.Host
  9. Adware.Toolbar.7FaSSt
  10. Adware.nCase
Last Updated 07/09/08 05:16:31 GMT

Top Blocked Websites

  1. doubleclick.net
  2. googlesyndication.com
  3. ad.yieldmanager.com
  4. rad.msn.com
  5. atwola.com
  6. revsci.net
  7. a.tribalfusion.com
  8. ads1.msn.com
  9. adrevolver.com
  10. live365.com
Last Updated 07/09/08 05:16:35 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
18:00 98,835,044 8,612,194 725,987 656,747 9,609 88,830,507 91.29%
19:00 94,803,141 8,385,290 794,415 689,226 6,672 84,927,538 91.16%
20:00 94,781,701 8,231,307 757,810 681,120 7,478 85,103,986 91.32%
21:00 95,399,332 7,934,297 694,831 633,192 21,530 86,115,482 91.68%
22:00 89,420,421 7,079,910 602,200 551,243 35,073 81,151,995 92.08%
23:00 84,394,228 5,913,507 571,740 516,408 32,630 77,359,943 92.99%
00:00 77,113,389 4,830,038 520,922 462,583 19,533 71,280,313 93.74%
01:00 74,891,271 4,149,829 466,564 419,661 8,887 69,846,330 94.46%
02:00 74,250,144 3,804,104 445,004 390,009 21,788 69,589,239 94.88%
03:00 74,812,768 3,677,956 432,114 366,232 13,152 70,323,314 95.08%
04:00 72,698,395 3,439,323 425,966 356,205 7,159 68,469,742 95.27%
05:00 72,780,517 3,299,978 417,068 358,950 6,605 68,697,916 95.47%
* All times in Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)