Monthly Report: January 2005, MessageLabs, Jan 2005

“The growing emergence of organised crime in the Internet fraud arena further endorses the need for businesses to protect themselves comprehensively from email security threats. The days of viruses designed merely to disrupt business indiscriminately are gone. Today¹s hazard is the targeted attack, revolving around malicious manipulation of the Internet for the purpose of fraud, theft, blackmail and extortion.�

Full story at http://www.messagelabs.com/emailthreats/intelligence/reports/monthlies/january05/