Trusteer is cautioning about Tatanga one financial malware that reportedly deceives Internet banking clients in such a way that they voluntarily endorse money-transfers, in reality unauthorized, out of their accounts in the name of merely activating a service that will insure against credit card embezzlements at zero cost, and which their banks supposedly provide.

According to the Q1-2012 report by PandaLabs, nearly one PC in every batch of 4 inside UK has some form of infection. The study indicates that 23%-or-so of the British computers have malware; however, the infection rate is low solely in Norway, Sweden and Switzerland. In China there's maximum malware infection where over 50% of the PCs have been compromised.

According to researchers from security firm, Websense, a malware strain has been revealed from infected computers offering adult dating websites. As the service utilizes geo-location service, the location of an infected system can be determined easily without difficulty.

The U.S. ICS-CERT is cautioning of one live "spear phishing" scam that's aiming attack on enterprises within the sector for natural gas distribution. Computerworld.com published this on May 7, 2012.