It has been reported by PandaLabs, Panda Security’s laboratory for detecting and analyzing malware, that cyber-criminals are now distributing free phishing kits used to commit fraud attacks. Some kits received more than 15,000 hits, which proves those kits to be rather effective and, thus, dangerous.

Symantec Messaging and Web Security published a May report revealing spam level in the past month. The junk letters made up 80% of all incoming mail, which proves experts right as regards the global economic recession.

Opera 9.5 developers promise their product will have the most up-to-date network security technology. Haute Secure, a company founded by former Microsoft employees, provided the third most popular Web browser with the necessary network security enhancement tools.

Kaspersky Labs has come across a blackmailing virus dubbed Virus.Win32.Gpcode.ak that encodes all user's files with extensions like *.doc, *.txt, *.pdf, *.xls, *.jpg, *.png, *.cpp, *.h and the like by means of a strong RSA encryption algorithm with a 1024-byte-length key. The virus adds a "._CRYPT" signature to the encoded files and places a "!_READ_ME_!.txt" plain text document in the same folder with the following contents: