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.

According to Symantec the security company, which gathered fresh data from innumerable Stuxnet samples, when cyber-criminals attacked Iran's nuclear refining plant they also dangerously aimed at 5 organizations within the region, hitting no less than ten times, thus published InfoWorld in news on February 22, 2011.