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So far, nuisance has been caused to e-mail accounts with phishing scams and viruses all over the world. Today, it’s social-networking websites that are apparently opening doors for spam along with other online applications that cause destruction.

According to Online Trust Alliance (OTA), an Internet advocacy group, merely 8% of all consumer websites are following standards to reduce online fraud.

According to a research conducted by iDefense, the cyber-security intelligence division of VeriSign, the year 2009 saw an enormous increase in demand related to user accounts that had been scratched from social-networking websites. A large number of these accounts go up for sale on the international black market and also on forums, the agency observes, as per the news published by TechEYE.net on April 22, 2010.

According to the security experts, an incident of FP (false positive) malware detection affected the customers of security firm McAfee on April 21, 2010. The incident is now being misused by cyber miscreants to distribute rogueware or scareware, and poison Web pages.

The Internet security firm Sophos has detected a fresh e-mail scam that abuses DHL. The e-mails used in this scam campaign are fake notifications from DHL Delivery Services, informing worldwide potential victims that due to some error in shipping address, the delivery of their parcels could not be done.

Security firm Symantec has highlighted that Internet Explorer and Adobe Reader remained the two programs that were most exposed to the online attacks, as dramatic surge was noticed in these attacks in 2009, as per the news published by TechCentral.ie on April 20, 2010.

In a new wave of scam e-mails, fraudsters have hacked the hotmail account of the Transport Secretary of Karnataka (India) and sent messages to his friends and colleagues.

On April 12, 2010, the security experts issued a warning that attackers are targeting BitTorrent users in a new scam trying to create anxiety and compelling them to pay money to avoid imprisonment and fines, as per the news published by SCMAGZINE on April 12, 2010. BitTorrent is a file sharing application.