Service members are reportedly getting an e-mail that has a formal-appearing PDF file infected with one new PC-virus facilitating keystroke logging, says California-located cyber-security company Alien Vault's lab manager Jaime Blasco. Miliatry.com published this in news on January 24, 2012. The virus, by recording keystrokes, garners the service member's PIN for Common Access Card, a type of smart-card as he reaches for a government system.

An e-mail scam purporting in the bayside area arriving from the African refugee constitutes a huge amount of money ($ 6 Million) and requires a foreigner's account to receive the money, as reported in the news published in Moorabbin Leader on January 25, 2012.

The Ministry of Economics, which conducted a recent investigation, found ten-or-more control systems that handled the manufacturing process at automobile as well as chemical factories contracting a PC-viral infection by March last year (2011), thus compelling the suspension of a few of the plants temporarily, reported Daily Yamiuri Online on January 23, 2012.

Security investigators at Websense are cautioning Web-surfers that doing an online search for the keyword "download Google Chrome," may lead to URLs serving malicious software. Help Net Security published this dated January 25, 2012.