M86, the security company reports that Internet fraudsters are using one fresh tactic to launch phishing attacks that helps them evade blacklists within Web-browsers.

According to the British Red Cross, Internet fraudsters are reportedly on the prowl attempting at cashing in on the recent catastrophe and destruction which arose from the enormous tsunami and earthquake in Japan on March 11, 2011. Marketwatch.com published this on March 14, 2011.

A US-based Skunkx botnet with the potential to execute distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, while identifying and impeding competing DDoS clients on the host have been unveiled by the researchers at Arbor Networks, as reported by Eweek on March 16, 2011.

A fresh malicious e-mail campaign is doing the rounds as its phishing e-mail poses as communication from ING Bank while possibly having a Dutch message translated from English, thus published Security.nl in news on March 16, 2011.