During the second half of 2009, attackers shifted their strategy away from mass-injection campaigns and instead focused on launching targeted attacks to infect high-profile websites, Websense found in a new report.

Spammers are on the Valentine's Day prowl already, and more ploys are expected, researchers at Trend Micro said Monday.

The Waledac botnet is spreading spam messages that contain the subject line "Happy New Year 2010" and provide a link for what the email claims to be a New Year's greeting card.

Security researchers on Monday began warning internet users of a pair of new threats whose goal is to install malware on the PCs of unwitting users.

The FBI warned Tuesday of an increase in targeted phishing emails containing malicious attachments or links that are being sent to law and public relations firms. If executed, the malicious payload used in the attack attempts to download and execute the file 'srhost.exe' from the domain 'http://d.ueopen.com,' the agency said in an alert. Any network traffic associated with the domain 'ueopen.com' should indicate a network is compromised. — AM

User names and passwords aren't secure, and momentum continues to build across the industry to solve this problem in a manageable way.

Research firms have been saying for quite some time that the antivirus/perimeter approach to security is dead, and targeted attacks could very well be the final nail in the AV coffin.

Humans are oftentimes gullible and inquisitive, and spammers are taking full advantage.