As per the Trend Micro researchers, within few hours of disastrous earthquake and tsunami in Japan on March 11, 2011, cybercrooks started taking advantage of the disaster by initiating several kinds of malware campaigns.

According to NSS Labs, malicious software entering from one end, though potentially blocked there, often remains undetected with the help of EPPs (Endpoint Protection Products) when it enters from other ends like a server for network file or a drive meant for USBs.

In the wake of the lethal Tsunami, which hit Japan with an earthquake of a 8.9 intensity on the Richter scale on March 11, 2011, the SANS Internet Storm Center (ISC) has stated that Internet-users must remain vigilant of a separate type of Tsunami: spam mails and fake websites seeking to convert mass inquisitiveness of the incidence into illegal profits. Threatpost published this on March 11, 2011.

According to RSA the security company's FraudAction Research Lab, cyber-criminals, with the help of SpyEye and Zeus exploit kits, have attacked abuse.ch, the Internet site of Swiss origin which spots malicious domains. Understandably, abuse.ch has been detecting fraudulent ISPs as well as harmful URLs serving banker Trojans.