Security researchers at the security firm Avira have notified netizens of a suspicious phishing attack by cyber crooks on the name of PayPal.

Security vendor, Panda Security warns of the expansion of recent trend undertaken by cyber crooks to disseminate malware through popular social media. Of recent, two more novel malicious codes shackled netizens using Facebook and created mayhem in the entire networld.

Symantec the security company through its MessageLabs hosted services unit released its monthly spam report namely "January 2011 MessageLabs Intelligence Report," according to which, Botnet Bagle overshadowed Botnet Rustock to become the greatest distributor of spam during January 2011.

According to one particular Washington DC-based security company namely Mandiant, which just released a report called "M-Trends," sophisticated hackers, to carry out targeted assaults that can be described as advanced relentless attacks too, are abusing social-networking websites for installing malicious software on users' systems.