According to CNCERT/CC (National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team/ Coordination Center) of China in its newly released Internet Security Report, during 2010, Web-hackers attacked an aggregate of 35,000 websites that were hosted from China of which 4,635 belonged to the government. People's Daily Online published this in news on March 10, 2011.

According to Security Company Symantec's MessageLabs, which published a new report titled, "Intelligence Report 2011," the month of February 2011 witnessed one of the unprecedented periods of junk e-mails in Australia, with the figure as the highest over the past twelve months. ComputerWorld published this on March 3, 2011.

Microsoft the software company alerts computer operators that several attacks have spikes while spreading ShockWaveFlash (SWF) malware, which are capable of infecting end-users' PCs with malicious programs over time.

One of the top security firms, Norman, have lately (March 08, 2011) declared that its security researchers have found a quickly emerging kind of SpyEye Trojan malware that attacks particular online banking applications, as reported by PR Newswire on March 08, 2011.