New Commtouch Anti-Zombie Service Detects Internet Threats

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Commtouch (NASDAQ:CTCH) today announced the availability of its new GlobalView™ Zombie Intelligence Service, which provides real-time data about zombies and their behavior.

“Zombies are a critical problem since they are responsible for the majority of malicious activity on the Internet,” said Michael Osterman, Principal Osterman Research. “Zombies are the perpetrators of DDoS attacks, click fraud, and credit card fraud, and they often host malware sites.”

GlobalView Zombie Intelligence is designed to enable vendors of security, intrusion prevention, intrusion detection, anti-fraud and anti-DDoS products to augment their solutions with anti-zombie offerings for their customers.

The new anti-zombie service is the company’s first web security offering, and is expected to be followed by other new web security services during 2008.

“No sector is immune from the threat of zombies,” said Amir Lev, Commtouch’s chief technology officer and president. “Companies are at risk from data leakage and distributed denial of service attacks, banks and their customers may be targeted for fraudulent activities such as financial scams and identity theft and Internet media companies lose revenue daily from click fraud.”

Zombie Lab Online Statistics

Together with the product launch, Commtouch is unveiling a new Zombie Lab Online Statistics section on its web site. The lab presents daily updates of GlobalView zombie data, including:

--		Global distribution of zombie IP addresses
--		Active zombies per specific time period, including:
		-- Breakdown by static/dynamic IP addresses
		-- Breakdown by activity level
--		"Zombie Hot Spots," a list of the top ten service providers by number of active zombies among their subscribers

To view the Zombie statistics lab, visit http://www.commtouch.com/Site/Resources/ZombieMonitor.asp.

How GlobalView Works

The GlobalView Zombie Intelligence Service is founded on Commtouch’s unique view of global Internet traffic. Commtouch Recurrent Pattern Detection (RPD™) technology analyzes over one billion transactions per day, including email and web traffic. The feedback loop between Commtouch messaging and web security technologies enables Commtouch to automatically identify zombie IP addresses rapidly, with superior accuracy and near-zero false positives.

Rapid, straightforward integration of GlobalView Zombie Intelligence into existing security solutions gives security vendors a competitive advantage in blocking zombies and zombie-generated activity for their customers. GlobalView provides rich, actionable information about zombies, including:

• IP Address of zombies
• IP type (dynamic or static)
• Geographic location
• Date and time of first/last activity
• Activities (spam, phishing, malware, command & control)
• Intensity level
• Risk level

Availability

GlobalView Zombie Intelligence Service is currently available for license to vendors. For more information, see http://www.commtouch.com/Site/Products/zombie.asp.

About Commtouch

Commtouch® (NASDAQ:CTCH) is the source of proven messaging and web security technology for scores of security companies and service providers, founded on a unique datacenter-based approach. Commtouch’s expertise in building efficient, massive-scale security services has resulted in its patented technology being used to mitigate Internet threats for thousands of organizations and hundreds of millions of users in over 100 countries. Commtouch’s Data Centers automatically analyze billions of transactions in real-time to identify new spam, malware and zombie outbreaks as they are initiated. Commtouch’s unmatched suite of security offerings – anti-spam, virus detection, reputation and zombie intelligence services – work together in a comprehensive feedback loop. Commtouch was founded in 1991, is headquartered in Netanya, Israel, and has a subsidiary in Sunnyvale, Calif. For more information and real-time statistics and trends, see: http://www.commtouch.com and the Commtouch Café blog at http://blog.commtouch.com/cafe.

Recurrent Pattern Detection, RPD, Zero-Hour and GlobalView are trademarks, and Commtouch is a registered trademark, of Commtouch Software Ltd. U.S. Patent No. 6,330,590 is owned by Commtouch.

NOTE: Commtouch Executives are meeting with members of the media during the RSA Security Conference April 7-11 at the Marriott Hotel, 55 4th Street, San Francisco. Contact Rebecca Herson 650-864-2112 for an appointment.