According to security researchers from Trend Micro, a spam outbreak is distributing malicious e-mails because the messages only pretend to be from the social-networking website "Foursquare" while divert recipients onto a tempting pharmacy website.

The recent attack on Macs by Flashback, infected devices of which almost 66% were loaded with OS X 10.6 more familiarly called Snow Leopard, reports Dr. Web the anti-virus company from Russia.

According to security experts at Intego, the leading provider of 'Mac anti-virus' as well as computer-security, one fresh Flashback variant known as Flashback.S, a Trojan malware is circulating in the wild as it abuses the same security flaw in Java which its earliest variant did.

An international vendor for secure services pertaining to web-access, Trusteer has unearthed one new case of fraud wherein data harvested through malware and phishing assaults is exploited for creating counterfeit business check books that are customized to suit their buyers' requirements The scam's countries-of-origin are China, UK and USA.