According to its most recent February 2011 security report, Kaspersky Lab the security firm through its statistics discusses the malware that prevailed in February 2011. SecureList published this in news on March 8, 2011.

Officials from Delhi (India) Crime Branch, on February 24, 2011, arrested a Nigerian national along with an Indian woman in Delhi over charges they conned people with fraudulent e-mails seeking payment for processing a transaction related to some lottery prize, which the victims supposedly won. Sify.com published this on March 3, 2011.

According to Security Company Panda Security, which has just announced the publication of its yearly paper on Internet security, 39% of PCs on which a scan was run during February 2011 had some form of malware infection or another as against 50% during January 2011.

A prominent supplier of data protection and content security, Barracuda Networks announced the publication of its 2010 yearly security report on 3rd March 2011 according to which, spam levels fell 50% during 2010. Security Management published this in news dated March 3, 2011.