Security researchers at the Anti-virus firm, McAfee have raised a warning against the launch of crimware toolkit, which emerges as result of the alliance between ZeuS and SpyEye. This toolkit is available for purchase on the underground market.

Principal of Ville Parle (Mumbai, India) based Sathaye College, Ms. Kavita Rege recently complained to the cyber-crime department situated in Mumbai's Bandra Kurla Complex following someone who hacked into her e-mail account and subsequently used it for dispatching bulk e-mails to her friends and acquaintances. Dnaindia.com reported this on January 13, 2011.

The FDIC is warning Netizens including customers and bankers on account of scammers that are using their name in spreading malware as reported by pcworld on January 13, 2011.

Security researchers at Kaspersky Lab the security company caution that online criminals, after stealing massive volumes of sensitive information from big organizations, are hiding them on the computers of those very companies without attracting any notice whatsoever. Computing.co.uk published this on January 12, 2011.