In its latest Intelligence Report, MessageLabs has held the Storm Botnet squarely responsible for a fifth of the total spam mails worldwide.

In the month of March 2008, spam reached a mean of 81% of the total e-mail traffic with an unprecedented peak of 88%. Compared to that, the first half of 2007 saw 65% of spam and the second half 70%, according to Symantec, the security software provider, in its "State of Spam" report for April 2008 as reported by ITweb on April 4, 2008.

ANZ Bank of Australia has issued a warning to its customers to look out for phishing e-mails from a new scam that is targeting the bank's customers, as reported by SCMagazine on April 7, 2008.

Elaborating on the phishing e-mail, the bank said that it addresses ANZ customers and tries to scare account holders who think that somebody tampered with their account.

According to e-mail security and hosting firm, IE Internet, while the levels of spam spiked sharply in March 2008, the month saw a continuous fall in virus attacks.

According to officials of OSU (Oregon State University), a phishing scam known as the "pay or die" is managed to enter the computer servers of the university in the end week of March 2008, potentially affecting faculty and students.

Webroot, a company that leads in providing security solutions to enterprises, SMB markets and consumers, on April 1, 2008, released its new report, "State of Internet Security: Protecting Business E-mail."

The authorities at the Office of Consumer Affairs are alerting clients against a phishing e-mail fraud planned to resemble an official IRS email, as reported by TheCitizen on April 4, 2008.

The IRS said that "phishing" is a leading tax season fraud since phishers utilize the Internet to purloin money from innocent taxpayers.

As indicated by a recent report released by a UK based anti-spam firm, ClearMyMail, mainly tackling unsolicited messages transmitted from America that put back small and medium-sized enterprises in the country by about £4.5 Billion in production costs.

The officials of the "Bank of Travelers Rest", based in Greenville, South Carolina, have alerted people that the bank's name is being misused in a phishing scam, as reported by WYFF4.COM on April 4, 2008.

According to Zach Jansen, Information Security Officer, CIT (Calvin Information Technology), phishing e-mails attempted to grab personal information came to the Calvin Webmail ids at least two times every week during February 2008. The e-mails hit about 300-400 accounts every time, as reported by CHIMES on March 28, 2008.

Old Point National Bank issued an alert on March 28, 2008 to tell its customers to look out for fraudulent e-mails that were circulating in the name of the bank.

Old Point National Bank is urging its customers to immediately delete those e-mails and not to contact anyone on the number given in the e-mail, as reported by dailypress on March 29, 2008,

Aite Group, LLC identifies, in its new report, strategies that banks could implement to protect themselves from phishing attacks as well as maintain the credibility of their e-mails.

CastleCops, a security watchdog site, is under another DDOS (Distributed Denial-of-Service) attack, as per the report published on March 28, 2008 by darkREADING.

In its recently released report, security software providing company, Symantec, reveals how the larger chunk of phishing attacks that aimed at government Websites during February 2008 increasingly attempted to whisk away money by making false promises for tax refunds, as reported by WHIR News on March 31, 2008.

According to the administration of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, phishers are targeting its user accounts to accumulate the individuals' personal information. In this run of attacks, approximately 20,000 people were recipients of phishing e-mails in March 2008 alone.