CipherTrust's ZombieMeter

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CipherTrust's ZombieMeterSM

CipherTrust's ZombieMeterSM tracks worldwide zombie activity in real-time. With more than 1,500 enterprise customers, CipherTrust has a very broad, unique view of the Internet and potential threats as they happen across the globe. By monitoring global messaging activity and identifying behavioral patterns, CipherTrust can continue to provide predictive protection against threats before they emerge.

Through data received from the Company’s global network of IronMail® appliances, which protect more than 10 million enterprise e-mail inboxes, the ZombieMeterSM tracks the number of new, completely unique zombies per hour, every hour. Visitors can view real-time updates regarding new zombie activity across the world, including the origination of messages and the number of machines affected by zombie activity.

Throughout the month of May, CipherTrust researchers found an average of 172,009 new zombies identified each day. Approximately 20% of the new zombies originated in the United States and 15% originated in China, representing a slight shift from research conducted during late March and early April which identified that approximately 20% of the 157,000 new zombies at that time originated in China. The origin of the zombie machines may change on a daily basis as machines can be infected anywhere in the world. CipherTrust has found that during April and May, the largest percent of zombie originations have alternated between China and the United States. In addition, during the first three weeks of May, approximately 26% of daily new zombies originated in the European Union, including 6%, 5% and 3% of new zombies originated in Germany, France and the United Kingdom, respectively.

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