Long gone are the "good old bad old days" when threats generally had an instant and obvious effect - when many businesses simply warned employees not to click on dubious looking email attachments in case their computers became infected with a virus or some other unwelcome visitor. Today we are seeing a rising tide of dangers that are more cunning, harder to pin down and much more difficult to defend against.

Examining recent developments in the threat landscape, this white paper focuses on the emergence of the web and covert information-gathering as key battlegrounds in the ongoing war against malware propagators and the criminal gangs increasingly active in this field.