The Australian Taxation Office has recently warned that, the cybercrooks are distributing malware through a spam campaign, as reported by ITNews on February 28, 2011.

In a major email phishing campaign, one of the largest online retailers in the UK, Play.com has been targeted, reports security firm GFI.

Spam mailers, it's said, are exploiting IDN (Internationalized Domain Names) for promoting websites on spam advertisements and penis pills, thus published The Register in news on March 1, 2011.

Blue Coat Systems the security company in its 2011 report on web security, after studying web behavior as well as malware that often manage to attack users, discovers that malicious software have shifted from the Internet's shady areas towards more acceptable zones like sources of mixed/open content and online storage sites. SCMagazine published this in news on February 28, 2011.