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-31038048
  2. BN.ZeroHour-30951428 (Troj/Agent-HOQ)
  3. BN.ZeroHour-31033282
  4. BN.ZeroHour-31023033 (Mal/EncPk-ES)
  5. Trojan.Fakealert-532
  6. BN.ZeroHour-31050241
  7. BN.ZeroHour-31035237 (Mal/RarMal-B)
  8. BN.ZeroHour-31050239
  9. Worm.Mytob.AU
  10. BN.ZeroHour-28222886
Last Updated 09/07/08 19:35:58 GMT

Top Spam Categories

  1. Online Pharmacies
  2. Credit and Debt Relief
  3. Casino and Gaming
  4. Replica Products
  5. Other Spam
  6. Virus Phishing
  7. Software Sales
  8. Illegal Advertising
  9. Job Offers
  10. Education Related
Last Updated 09/07/08 19:36:00 GMT
1 As reported by Barracuda Spam Firewalls.

Web Threats 2

Top Blocked Spyware / Adware

  1. Adware.Toolbar.MySearch.MyWebSearch
  2. Adware.180Solutions.Zango
  3. Adware.FunWebProducts
  4. Adware.Toolbar.Mysearch.Myway
  5. Adware.SurveyPoll
  6. Adware.AdFlow
  7. Trojan.Dropper.Win32.Small.kc
  8. Adware.BHO.Starware
  9. Adware.Toolbar.7FaSSt
  10. Adware.ZenoSearch
Last Updated 09/07/08 19:35:34 GMT

Top Blocked Websites

  1. doubleclick.net
  2. googlesyndication.com
  3. ad.yieldmanager.com
  4. rad.msn.com
  5. atwola.com
  6. messenger.hotmail.com
  7. ads1.msn.com
  8. revsci.net
  9. live365.com
  10. quantserve.com
Last Updated 09/07/08 19:35:34 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
08:00 73,073,710 1,907,689 406,510 316,967 98,265 70,344,279 97.39%
09:00 76,276,307 2,027,339 444,461 348,117 132,763 73,323,627 97.34%
10:00 80,086,551 2,090,538 518,263 400,750 141,372 76,935,628 97.39%
11:00 84,006,131 2,062,376 508,658 382,107 107,694 80,945,296 97.54%
12:00 80,490,272 2,172,283 498,627 425,411 106,888 77,287,063 97.30%
13:00 78,022,279 2,385,079 539,366 445,555 80,718 74,571,561 96.94%
14:00 80,774,302 2,409,158 536,316 436,014 91,629 77,301,185 97.02%
15:00 89,240,904 2,877,043 625,642 502,892 101,141 85,134,186 96.78%
16:00 92,605,421 3,217,805 645,978 521,631 107,813 88,112,194 96.53%
17:00 92,634,184 2,924,667 574,718 493,980 115,697 88,525,122 96.84%
18:00 93,506,929 2,720,037 561,030 466,489 95,036 89,664,337 97.09%
19:00 95,983,682 2,574,439 531,050 449,721 84,946 92,343,526 97.32%
* All times in Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)