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There has been a sharp hike in the volume of cyber-crime attacks designed to steal personal information, new research reveals. Internet service providers (ISPs) are facing more security threats, while attacks are becoming larger and more sophisticated. Phishing attacks that target high-value assets are increasing, according to researchers at Verisign's iDefense Labs. During the past year, waves of attacks have risen from three or four a month to as many as 10 per month. Attacks on instant messaging networks continue to grow in sophistication and danger, according to research covering January.. Malicious DNS redirection at the server level is growing with the proliferation of open-recursive DNS servers, according to a new joint research paper. Microsoft has warned of limited attacks using third-party applications to exploit a Windows flaw. Silent but deadly attacks on four major sites have been revealed by researchers Ed Felten and Bill Zeller at Princeton University. Targeted attacks against financial institutions continued to soar last month, according to the latest report by RSA. Users are being advised to update their systems after the emergence of a new rash of attacks targeting a previously-patched flaw in Adobe Acrobat. Protecting users from internet-borne threats falls on trusted websites, says Overstock's Sam Peterson. Dan Kaplan reports. As we put the festivities behind us and fix our sights firmly on the year ahead, those criminal gangs involved in the nefarious activities of spam creation, phishing and virus attacks continue to engage new tactics that will take advantage of our relaxed, less cautious frame of mind. The W/32 Skipi.A worm that nagged Skype users in early September was fairly routine by malware standards. It arrived pretending to be a message from another user, offered erotic pictures, infected machines via malicious links, stole information and moved on to other PCs. A proof-of-concept multiplatform macro worm that can attack OpenOffice on Windows, Mac and Linux PCs, has been sent to security vendor Sophos. Partnership aims to prevent attacks on critical databases. Two security firms have revealed that spam attacks have increased in the last quarter. Numerous vulnerabilities have been identified in Adobe's popular Flash Player that allow attackers to gain control over a user's PC and use it as a launching pad to obtain sensitive data, inject arbitrary code, launch cross-site scripting attacks and mount privilege escalation attacks on servers hosting cross-domain policy files. The number of hacking attacks against utility companies has soared by 90 per cent, according to SecureWorks. The online attack that took down government servers in Estonia was most likely down to an online 'flash mob' and not the Russian government, according to researchers. The financial industry has been hit hard by the increasing sophistication of web-based threats, including online phishing and identity theft attacks. According to Gartner, these attacks caused losses upwards of US$2.8 billion in 2006 and the numbers don't seem to be abating in 2007. Business news magazine BusinessWeek has become the latest victim of the rising phenomenon of SQL injection attacks.