Researchers at the security company 'Sophos' have discovered that attackers are using a PDF file to identify Adobe Reader's version and unleashing a suitable attack code. If exploited effectively, Sophos claims, a sample of fake antivirus gets downloaded and deployed on the target PC.

According to the news reported by Abc15 on July 2, 2010, hackers are distributing fake Amazon e-mails to users' mailboxes to exploit the company's trustworthy name for disseminating Trojan.

Security researchers at McAfee have detected a new spam campaign associated with the old Canadian Pharmacy theme. Meirgen Krehs, Researcher at McAfee Avert Labs, states that some time has passed since anything has been spotted referencing the Canadian Pharmacy. Yet, according to him, a huge number of URLs related to spam has been discovered that all associate with a few widely documented malicious Internet Protocol ranges, as reported by SCMagazine on July 1, 2010.

Internet security firm 'AppRiver' has released its mid-year Threat and Spamscape report which gives a detailed assessment of spam and malware trends recorded between January 2010 and June 2010. As per the report, the firm quarantined over 26 Billion spam messages in these six months.