In a recent online scam, an unknown sender has been attempting to instigate recipients into clicking a link that downloads a malicious zip file, as reported by topix on January 9, 2010.

A senior official within the German department of police, recently, spied on the Web-surfing of his daughter that reportedly, led to a computer intrusion of "Patras" the monitoring system maintained with the German cops, published Naked Security dated January 9, 2012.

According to ZoneAlarm a Web security firm, 1 web-link from a group of 5, which gets exhibited within news stream can direct visitors onto a site capable of contaminating their computers with a destructive PC virus, published BUSINESS INSIDER in news dated January 5, 2012.

A man proclaiming to be a 'Saudi hacker' and calling himself "OxOmar," after leaking particulars about numerous Israeli payment cards twice during the 1st-week of January 2012, yet once more attacked during the same period using fresh Internet file which was loaded with a PC-Trojan, published Brecorder.com dated January 7, 2012.