Fresh news reports by the Internet security firm Red Condor, published during the 3rd week of December 2009, reveal that 2009 has been conspicuous for various advancements in technologies related to e-mail archiving and spam-fighting. Also, the year has been marked with numerous instances of blended-threat e-mails.

Project Honey Pot is a global community of web and e-mail administrators which joined their forces to detect and eliminate online abuse and fraud. The community decided to inform the public about some of their discoveries.

Internet security firm F-Secure, during the third week of December 2009, released a list of probable e-threats for 2010.

A Chinese court announced imprisonment of up to three years to 11 persons on December 16, 2009 for their alleged role in the creation and distribution of computer virus that had the capability of stealing usernames and passwords of online games.