Security firm, Kaspersky of recent announced that cybercriminals are targeting legitimate sites for disbursing malware. According to the firm, this proportion reached the ratio of one in 3,000 in 2010.

On February 23, 2011, at a general meeting in Orlando, Florida (USA), Karl Frederick Rauscher Chief Technology Officer of the EastWest Institute announced that a cyber-security report from the combined effort of United States and China would be released before long. PR Newswire published this in news on February 24, 2011.

Investigators from BitDefender the Romanian security company caution that malicious online campaigns are employing bogus YouTube pages that load PC-Trojans onto the systems of end-users.

According to investigators at M86 a security company, phishers are sending fake e-mails to University students whose e-mail ids end with .edu, with these e-mails posing as messages that seemingly the academic institution's system admin sent.