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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. The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) is warning internet users of spam emails claiming to come from internet hit men. Spammers are fans of the alphabet according to recent research – you’re going to start wishing your name was Zebedee. Update patches kernel flaws. The rate and complexity at which exploits are being "weaponised" is rapidly increasing. A Brazilian man has been indicted for conspiring to broker the sale of a botnet which allegedly damaged 100,000 Pcs. Hackers are using SQL injection attacks to infect websites with updates on the Olympics. Most malicious internet attacks go undetected by anti-virus software. Malware writers and hackers turning their sights to Apple Macs, warns security firm Sophos. Security vendor, F-Secure is days away from capturing its unprecedented one millionth piece of malware. Attacks targeted towards voice communication channels such as VoIP and mobile phones are quietly increasing, security researchers have warned.

Microsoft fixed six vulnerabilities, three of them rated critical, with four patches in its May Patch Tuesday round this week. All were file-format vulnerabilities impacting client-side Windows machines rather than servers. Malware purveyors are embracing the upcoming Olympic games wholeheartedly. Hackers are getting quicker at taking advantage of publicly-disclosed security holes, new research shows. An analysis of 100 security tests carried out over the past five years shows that application level weaknesses are up by 50 percent. A new large-scale botnet has been spotted forwarding what appears to be real news headlines about Microsoft, George Bush and Al Qaeda in an attempt to infect users.
As the malware threat landscape continues to evolve, hackers are constantly changing techniques to counteract detection technologies vendors develop. 24 Romanians believed to be part of an organised cybercrime ring were arrested during the past week. Globalisation involves extending the business to locations around the world to make the most cost effective use of global resources. Remote code flaw being exploited.