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A highly organised gang of phishers took some time off to rebuild its botnet infrastructure -- but experts expect the scams to return with a vengeance. A million US victims lost "billions of dollars" to email phishing scams in the past two years, new research has warned. A new phishing scheme leveraging the McDonald's name is part of a trend that plays on the economic downturn. The Asprox botnet, initially exclusively used for phishing scams, is now an SQL injection vector for website attacks. The IT security vendor community came out in force today to warn consumers and corporate web surfers that internet criminals are likely to double their efforts over the Christmas season to infect machines and steal sensitive data. A combination of the consolidating financial services space and fear over the stock market plunge has prompted malware writers to shift their tactics. As might be expected, email users are beginning to see the first stages of what is expected to be a major phishing attack capitalising on the populace's eager expectation of IRS refund checks, as well as the Bush administration's economic stimulus payment distribution, scheduled to begin May 2. A Nigerian man has been arrested over an Internet-based lonely-hearts scam, which stripped a 45-year-old Queensland man of thousands of dollars. Security experts are warning users to be on the lookout for a new rash of fake antivirus campaigns. A new tool makes it easier for malware spreaders to create bogus YouTube pages. Chinese scammers are using search engine optimisation (SEO) techniques to subvert company details. The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) is warning internet users of spam emails claiming to come from internet hit men. Australians have lost nearly $120,000 to the Olympic ticket scammers, according to the NSW Office of Fair Trading's latest update. With the opening ceremony only four days away, online fraudsters are using the hype of the Beijing Olympics to trick consumers out of thousands of dollars. Security provider RSA is reporting a new and unfamiliar Trojan attack that exploits business bank account holders’ heightened awareness of security and uses it against them. The Super Bowl presents a ripe target for cybercriminals intent on maximising the impact of their scams, and the biggest question at this time - aside from which team will win the big game - is what form these attacks will take. A spike in the number of registered Tropical Storm Ernesto-related domain names, as the system churns toward the Florida coast, has some information security experts thinking fraud could be on the way, too. Forget SSL injection and cross-site scripting, there's a new website vulnerability in town -- and you can't scan for it. People just don’t think that putting family genealogy, exposes them and their families to spying by ID fraudsters and for that matter anyone else (stalkers, paedophiles, employers, parents). Malware writers are looking to cash in on the upcoming Fourth of July weekend, security experts have warned.