IronPort Threat Operations Center
The 24x7x365 IronPort Threat Operation Center provides human oversight to ensure speed and accuracy. Experienced analysts use sophisticated tools to verify anomalies and approve automatically generated Outbreak Rules.
What is a Virus Outbreak?
Of the email-based viruses that occur on a daily basis, only few qualify for Virus Outbreak status. For a virus to be classified as an outbreak, it must:
- be a new virus (or a new variant of an existing known virus),
- have moderate to significant damage potential,
- have a widespread distribution, and
- be an infection that IronPort has seen several instances of, from varied sources.
If any of these occurrences satisfy the above criteria, our Threat Operation Center (TOC) investigates the incident and issues outbreak rules to protect our customers.
Current Virus Outbreak Threat Level
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Virus Outbreaks in the Last 24 Hours (Last Updated: May 22, 2012)
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Virus Outbreak Filters Lead Times
Below are the 20 most recent outbreaks tracked by the IronPort Threat Operations Center and the lead time that IronPort Virus Outbreak Filters provided for each, relative to the signature times of several other anti-virus vendors.
| Legend | |
|---|---|
| Zero Hour Detection | Post Zero Hour Detection |
| All times are GMT and in 24 hour format | |
| Virus Name | IronPort | Sophos | McAfee | Trend Micro | Symantec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Troj/DwnLdr-JYV | 05/21/2012 09:41 | +0d 10h 14m | Not Published | Not Published | Not Published |
| Troj/Zbot-BXJ | 05/21/2012 09:29 | +0d 10h 26m | Not Published | Not Published | +0d 3h 11m |
| Troj/Dorkbot-BV | 05/21/2012 08:23 | +0d 3h 27m | Not Published | +0d 12h 52m | +0d 3h 17m |
| Troj/DwnLdr-JZI | 05/21/2012 06:31 | +0d 13h 24m | Not Published | Not Published | Not Published |
| Troj/DwnLdr-JYT | 05/20/2012 12:50 | +0d 9h 15m | Not Published | Not Published | Not Published |
| Troj/Agent-WHL | 05/20/2012 02:00 | +0d 5h 20m | Not Published | Not Published | Not Published |
| Mal/Generic-L | 05/20/2012 00:05 | +1d 19h 50m | +1d 15h 35m | +1d 4h 45m | Not Published |
| Troj/Bredo-XT | 05/19/2012 07:11 | +0d 11h 54m | Not Published | Not Published | Not Published |
| Troj/Bancos-BQP | 05/18/2012 10:24 | +0d 10h 36m | Not Published | Not Published | Not Published |
| Troj/DwnLdr-JYQ | 05/18/2012 09:59 | +0d 11h 1m | Not Published | Not Published | Not Published |
| Troj/Mdrop-EFQ | 05/18/2012 08:26 | +0d 12h 34m | Not Published | Not Published | +0d 9h 24m |
| Troj/Rorpian-AR | 05/18/2012 08:00 | +0d 3h 30m | Not Published | +0d 19h 0m | +0d 9h 50m |
| Troj/DwnLdr-JYS | 05/18/2012 06:51 | +0d 14h 9m | Not Published | Not Published | Not Published |
| Troj/Bredo-XR | 05/18/2012 05:54 | +0d 5h 36m | Not Published | Not Published | +0d 4h 46m |
| Troj/Dapato-M | 05/18/2012 05:49 | +1d 0h 36m | Not Published | Not Published | +0d 4h 51m |
| W32/VBNA-L | 05/18/2012 01:10 | +0d 10h 20m | Not Published | Not Published | +0d 16h 40m |
| Troj/VB-FXF | 05/17/2012 23:37 | +0d 9h 18m | Not Published | Not Published | Not Published |
| Troj/Zbot-BXH | 05/17/2012 16:26 | +0d 7h 54m | Not Published | Not Published | +0d 14h 59m |
| Troj/Zbot-BXH | 05/17/2012 12:35 | +0d 11h 45m | Not Published | Not Published | +0d 4h 10m |
| Troj/Bredo-XS | 05/17/2012 10:50 | +1d 0h 40m | Not Published | Not Published | +1d 7h 0m |
Note: The AV signature times referenced are the first publicly published signature times. If signature time is not available, first publicly published alert time is used. Generic signatures not included.
