Security researchers with Kaspersky, has warned of fake advertisements sent by cyber crooks into the ICQ network, an instant messaging tool, with the alias name of a retail chain.

McAfee the security company, which just released a report titled "A Good Decade for Cyber-crime," states that as cyber-crime evolved over the last ten years, the computer worm MyDoom represented the greatest destructive malicious software threat that prevailed over the period Consequently, it's the first exploit on the report's five most-prevalent malware listed.

Security researchers at Sophos the anti-virus vendor caution Internet-users that one fresh surge of rogue electronic mails are spreading the Buzus computer worm.

Recently, researchers at the security firm AppRiver have raised warning against a phishing campaign that attacks merchant accounts from First Data, a payment processing firm.