The Treasury Board of Canada, during early February 2011, blocked employees from accessing the Net due to threats that weren't specified. The Board's online site states that its responsibilities include ethics and accountability, comptrollership, endorsing regulations along with the majority of Orders-in-Council, and administrative management. IeeeSpectrum published this in news on February 21, 2011.

Computer operators visiting the website of LSE (London Stock Exchange) during the February 25, 2011 weekend became exposed to malevolent advertisements producing security alerts, which in reality were false. ComputerWorld published this on March 1, 2011.

Security researchers at the SANS Institute said they spotted one most perilous method for cyber attack known as "pervasive memory scraping" that expectedly would be employed during the current year (2011). ComputerWorld published this in news on February 25, 2011.

Last month, on February 23, 2011, Dusseldorf, Germany's Consumer NRW alerted that one fresh surge of fake e-mails were targeting people who had accounts in the Postbank. TOnline published this on February 24, 2011.