According to PandaLabs the security company, which just released one fresh report, new strains of malicious programs are coming on the Internet at a mean rate of 73,000 daily.

In its "State of Spam And Phishing, March 2011" report, Symantec the United States-based security company states that there has been a 38.56% surge in phishing attacks in February 2011, since online-crooks once again found the prowess that were of phishing kits. Infosecurity-magazine.com reported this dated March 18, 2011.

"GhostExodus" originally named Jesse William McGraw, who led ETA (Electronik Tribulation Army) a hacker gang, admitted to carrying out dual instances of malware installation onto computers in the hospice that employed him. Consequently, he was sentenced at the Northern Texas District Court of USA on March 17, 2011 to remain imprisoned for 110 months, reported Mcgrewsecurity.com on March 18, 2011.

Skype subscribers are saying that one fresh malicious campaign is contacting their accounts regarding a particular software update they must install on their PCs, thus published hideyourselfonline.com in news on March 14, 2011.