A report from trend micro has disclosed one such phishing event which engage reader digest India. This attack engaged email messages seeming t be sent by the company informing the recipient that they were chosen as finalist of some sweepstake, according to the news published on tectree.com dated January 24, 2012.

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) of the United States set off January 4, 2012 as the first date of the season for filing tax returns. Not waiting longer, opportunistic malware purveyors have thus started distributing tax-related scam e-mails to unwary users, reports Help Net Security in news on January 23, 2012.

Cisco the security firm, on January 24, 2012, published its Global Threat Report for the fourth quarter of 2011 (Q4-2011), presenting the statistical data on malevolent websites during the quarter. Help Net Security reported this on January 24, 2012.

A researcher from AlienVault Labs claims he discovered one sample of the Trojan virus Sykipot which helps in hijacking the Common Access Cards (CACs) of the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), so published Redmondmag.com dated January 17, 2012.