According to SABRIC, the South African Banking Risk Information Center, the total number of e-mail scams that trick online banking users into releasing their confidential information is on the rise.

A malware attack has forced the IT department of Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman (TIO) to take its website offline in the second week of February 2010.

Botnet construction kit ZeuS, widely used among online crooks, is confronting challenge from a new computer Trojan, SpyEye. Based on an analysis by Security Company Symantec, it is evident that SpyEye's recent version, apparently having its origin in Russia, as well contains an option for removing ZeuS-infected bots come upon from contaminated computers.

Prolexic a network protection firm has released a report according to which, in the botnet evolution's latest phase, activist and political inclinations are now the key motivation for espionage, denial-of-service, and other assaults.