CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Calyptix Security has successfully protected its customers from a new email virus widely known as the Storm Trojan, without reliance on static signatures.
Calyptix Security utilizes DyVax, the company’s patent-pending signature-less inspection engine, exclusively packaged with Calyptix Security’s AccessEnforcer brand product line. Using the most recent version of its DyVax software, version 1.3, released on January 9, 2007, Calyptix Security was immediately able to identify and quarantine all variants of the virus so that no damage could be done to the user’s workstation or the larger network.
Trend Micro reports capturing variants of the Storm Trojan as early as January 17, 2007. Initial signature solutions were first made available by leading anti-virus vendors beginning January 18, 2007. Subsequently, those vendors have continued to update their signatures upon discovery of new variants. Some customers of leading anti-virus vendors did not receive updated signatures until as late as January 22, 2007.
Conversely, Calyptix Security’s customers were protected well before the first variant of the Trojan was discovered without any need for signature updates.
The rapid rate at which the Storm Trojan swept across the world has demonstrated the significant challenges facing the security industry’s long standing reactionary approach and reliance on developing static signatures after the discovery of new threats.
Variants of the Storm Trojan provide subject lines with alarming announcements or "greeting card" messages to entice recipients into opening the message to activate the Trojan. The Trojan then compromises the host by installing a program onto the user’s computer which it retrieves from websites under the control of the author of the malware. Once compromised, these computers can be used to generate spam and other malicious traffic. Variants of the Trojan captured by Calyptix Security’s customers have used numerous provocative subjects including:
* My Eye on You
* First Nuclear Act of Terrorism!
* Happy World Religion Day!
* Russian Missile shot down USA Satellite
* Saddam Hussein safe and sound!
* The commander of a U.S. nuclear submarine lunch [sic] the rocket by mistake
Calyptix Security has ranked the Storm Trojan as having high damage and distribution potential and anticipates a resulting surge in spam and other malicious traffic. Aliases of this virus include TROJ_SMALL.EDW (Trend Micro), Trojan.Peacomm (Symantec), Downloader-BAI (McAfee), CME-711 (Common Malware Enumeration), and Small.DAM (F-Secure).
DyVax was developed and refined by Dr. Yuliang Zheng, a leading international authority in cryptography and network security, and Dr. Lawrence Teo, a widely published expert in Internet security and open source technology. DyVax was created as a cornerstone for building a scalable, world-wide Internet Defense Force. In laboratory testing, DyVax has proven more successful than the leading commercial and open source anti-virus solutions.
For additional information on how DyVax achieves zero-day threat protection, please visit http://www.calyptix.com/dyvax.
About Calyptix Security Corporation
Founded in 2002, Calyptix Security Corporation is a developer of Unified Threat Management (UTM) security solutions for the needs of small and medium size businesses. Calyptix Security has rapidly commercialized its premier product line, AccessEnforcer, an all-in-one appliance that deploys DyVax, the company’s proprietary algorithm and inspection engine to dynamically filter network traffic from true zero-day threats without reliance on signatures. Calyptix Security is headquartered in Charlotte, NC. For more information, please visit the Calyptix Security website at www.calyptix.com or call 704.971.8989.
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