Sophos the company for data protection and IT security, which released its new "Security Threat Report 2012," evaluates in detail the threat scenario starting with hacktivism as well as notes that over 50% of malware assaults against Web-surfers currently comprise drive-by download assaults.

Trusted E-mail Registry, a part of the technology policy unit namely BITS belonging to The Financial Services Roundtable as well as the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC) are planning to publish reports specific to domains so there'll be detail understanding of the efforts towards dispatching fake e-mails posing as communications from the twin institutes of finance, the duo stated in news from Credit Union Times published on January 26, 2012.

According to the January 26, 2012 findings by Symantec Corp. in a Symantec Intelligence Report, more than 10,000 exclusive domain names containing a redirect script written in PHP were found to contain a reference to the New Year in the file name. These redirect scripts were hosted on suspected Web sites and links connected with these were contained in the spam e-mails, according to the news in Market Watch on January 26, 2012.

According to Symantec, which recently released its Intelligence Report for 2012, there were 2,102 websites daily throughout January 2012 which hosted malware, falling substantially from the number in December 2011. And though malware-ridden websites were fewer compared to December 2011, phishing and spam attacks had increased, reported The Inquirer in news on January 26, 2012.