CYBER criminals are launching 100 attacks a second on the world’s computers with one attack every four seconds successfully infecting a PC, a report by a leading producer of anti- virus software has found.

CYBER attacks on AIB customers have increased significantly as thousands of customers are targeted in phishing scams netting fraudsters thousands of euro.

A CYBER spy network based mainly in China hacked into classified documents from government and private organisations in 103 countries, including the computers of the Dalai Lama and Tibetan exiles, Canadian researchers said at the weekend.