A warning has been issued to Internet-users during the 3rd week of July 2010 that a new scam is distributing malware and spam while pretending to be a payment request from the auction site eBay, harming computers as well as mobile devices.

Post FIFA 2010 when a large number of soccer enthusiasts were made victims of enticing SMSes and spam mails, online crooks presently appear to be aiming at the Commonwealth Games (CWG) 2010 scheduled to commence at India's capital, New Delhi, by dispatching spurious SMSes and spam mails.

Software Company Microsoft has nabbed 25 UK-based companies that admitted they sold counterfeit software of Windows operating system through fresh computers since 2010 beginning.

As per the security firm 'Computer Associates (CA),' hackers have developed a new version of the Zeus crimeware toolkit. The researchers have named this new crimeware tool kit as the 'Zeus version 3'.