Naveen Kumar Midha, an Indian citizen residing on Lavelle Road (Bengaluru, India), recently received a SMS alert on his mobile phone about the withdrawal of Rs 32,000 from his bank account. Before receiving the alert on mobile phone, Midha had shared his bank account details few hours earlier with an unknown person who sent him an e-mail asking him to do so.

A malicious advertising (malvertising) attack hit TweetMeme on July 15, 2010 when a phony advertiser invaded the tweetmeme.com website.

The security firm 'M86' has formulated a list of "Top Ten Most Wanted" Spam Spewing Botnets for the first half of 2010. Majority of the botnets are believed to be controlled by the cyber criminals in the Eastern Europe to manipulate computer systems, generally the PCs across the globe.

As per the report 'H1 2010 E-Threat Landscape Report Threat' released by the security firm "BitDefender's", spam was one of the most consistent issues that troubled computer users in the first half of 2010. Among the unsolicited messages sent worldwide, most of them were the scandalous advertisements by the Canadian Pharmacy which represented approximately 66% of the global spam.