Quarterly Report I/2012 security firm Trend Micro on security threats have confirmed: In the first quarter with strong shift in the security industry, with targeted attacks and threats advanced persistent threats, is considered long-term performance, continuously, in contrast to the attacks of cyber criminals in the past.

Also according to this report, significant events such as Linsanity, the death of Whitney Houston and the change of political or social facilitate implementation cybercrime social campaign - engineering. Cybercrime attack and cause infection to the user as well as systems for the purpose of data access to the victim.

The report also indicates that cyber criminals, these guys make offensives a persistent, will regularly monitor different attacks in a campaign to attack decisions that would affect individual victim to a specific system. For example Luckycat campaign, attacking targets in a wide range of malicious software use, few of which are connected to campaign espionage networks.

The statistics in this report shows emerging trend in the form of network attack in the early months of 2012: Cybercriminals are taking advantage of the increase in Android users regularly use the phone for internet access. In fact, Trend Micro discovered approximately 5000 new malicious applications of Android in the first quarter.

Apple surpassed Oracle, Google and Microsoft in the report of the flaw, with a total of 91. Oracle ranked No. 2 is 78, Google: 73 and Microsoft: 43. Besides offering the highest number of vulnerabilities, Apple also offers a large number of patches in a record in March this year.

New social networking site, Pinterest, not only popular but also very popular now. Participants view this page as you pull into the Starbucks logo to receive gift cards, instead it will be infected with malicious code.

List of countries with the highest percentage of spam posts include: India (20%), Indonesia (13%), Korea (12%) and Russia (10%).
In this quarter, network infrastructure security Trend Micro ™ Smart ™ Smart Protection Network, cloud computing infrastructure has defended clients against spam total 15.3 billion; 338.4 thousand malicious and 1.3 billion malicious link.