Last Updated on May 24, 2015

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New year, new Cyber Attacks Timeline. Let us start our Information Security Travel in 2012 with the chart of the attacks occurred in the first fifteen days of January. This month has been characterized so far by the leak of Symantec Source Code and the strange story of alleged Cyber Espionage revolving around it. But this was not the only remarkable event: chronicles tell the endless Cyber-war between Israel and a Saudi Hacker (and more in general the Arab World), but also a revamped activity of the Anonymous against SOPA (with peak in Finland). The end of the month has also reserved several remarkable events (such as the breaches to T-Mobile and Zappos, the latter affecting potentially 24,000,000 of users). In general this has been a very active period. For 2012 this is only the beginning, and if a good beginning makes a good ending, there is little to be quiet…

Browse the chart and follows @paulsparrows to be updated on a biweekly basis. As usual after the jump you will find all the references. Feel free to report wrong/missing links or attacks.

1. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/01/01/cslea-and-ny-police-chief-mail-and-db-dumped-by-anonymous/
   
2. http://www.databreaches.net/?p=22581
   
3. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/01/01/ophiroshima-delivers-massive-dump-of-doxs-and-data/
   
4. http://www.dodlive.mil/index.php/2011/12/aggressive-phishing-attack-targets-military/
   
5. http://isc.sans.edu/diary.html?storyid=12304
   
6. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/01/01/ministry-of-trade-republic-of-indonesia-hacked-and-dumped-by-cabincr3w/
   
7. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/01/06/brazil-ministry-of-environment-hacked-by-anonymous-opamazonasave-1-0/
   
8. http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/saudi-hackers-claim-to-post-personal-information-of-400-000-israelis-1.405147
   
9. http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/01/03/fake-wendi-deng-murdoch-makes-mockery-of-twitter-verified-account-process/
   
10. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/01/04/credit-rating-agencies-hacked-by-wallroad/
    
11. http://anonops.blogspot.com/2012/01/opblitzkrieg.html
    
12. http://thehackernews.com/2012/01/30-pakistan-government-sites-goes-down.html
    
13. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/06/symantic-hack-source-code_n_1190673.html
    
14. https://www.facebook.com/Symantec/posts/10150465997682876
    
15. http://blogs.computerworld.com/19531/hacked_memo_leaked_apple_nokia_rim_supply_backdoors_for_govt_intercept
    
16. http://www.forbes.com/sites/richardstiennon/2012/01/11/first-documented-case-of-cyber-espionage/
    
17. http://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/19336-The-Lords-of-Dharmaraja-Faked-Indian-Govt-Memo.html
    
18. http://ibnlive.in.com/news/fake-memo-but-real-code-indiaus-hacking-mystery-deepens/220239-11.html
    
19. http://news.softpedia.com/news/ArcelorMittal-Hacked-by-Anonymous-Tons-of-Information-Leaked-244898.shtml
    
20. http://blog.seculert.com/2012/01/ramnit-goes-social.html
    
21. http://news.softpedia.com/news/The-Majority-of-Accounts-Stolen-by-Ramnit-Outdated-Facebook-Says-245196.shtml
    
22. http://www.theage.com.au/business/cyber-attack-strands-etrade-customers-20120104-1pl3x.html
    
23. http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/view/23046/pastebin-shut-down-twice-in-a-week-by-ddos-attacks/
    
24. http://www.zdnetasia.com/singapores-nus-confirms-security-breach-62303396.htm
    
25. http://edition.cnn.com/2012/01/06/us/stratfor-website/index.html
    
26. http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2012/january/malware_010612/malware_010612
    
27. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/01/06/sony-pictures-hacked-by-anonymous-opsony/
    
28. http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2012/01/06/OSU-Medical-Center-server-hacked.html
    
29. http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/UVic+theft+scores+banking+data+employees/5970030/story.html
    
30. http://thehackernews.com/2012/01/ramgen-janelle-scandal-video-posted-on.html
    
31. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/jan/08/hackers-expose-defence-intelligence-officials
    
32. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/01/11/anonymous-attack-israeli-websites-in-light-of-opfreepalestine/
    
33. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/01/10/101-sites-defaced-and-threats-of-data-leaks-by-zhc-in-operation-1m-vs-nato/
    
34. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/01/15/game-hacked-and-accounts-leaked/
    
35. http://datalossdb.org/incidents/5422-201-usernames-and-hashed-passwords-acquired-and-dumped-by-hacker
    
36. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/01/08/big-list-of-accounts-and-defacement-from-various-hacked-sites/
    
37. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/01/11/islamic-network-hacked-and-small-amount-of-accounts-dumped/
    
38. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/01/11/futureexpert-co-uk-hacked-and-accounts-dumped/
    
39. http://www.databreaches.net/?p=22776
    
40. http://news.softpedia.com/news/Anonymous-Attacks-Finland-Anti-Piracy-Outfits-for-Ordering-TPB-Blockade-245609.shtml
    
41. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/01/10/united-beauty-hacked-and-5000-accounts-dumped-by-p0keu/
    
42. http://www.itworld.com/security/222033/fake-threat-against-facebook-dwarfs-anonymous-real-attacks-israel-finland-portugal
    
43. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/01/11/expl0it-defaces-4-sites-for-ndaa/
    
44. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/01/11/www-lemuse-info-leaked-with-full-exposure/
    
45. http://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/19312-Phishing-Campaign-Using-Spoofed-US-CERT-Emails.html
    
46. http://news.softpedia.com/news/South-Houston-SCADA-Systems-Protected-by-Three-Character-Passwords-235798.shtml
    
47. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/01/11/dump-of-accounts-from-b-k-lighting/
    
48. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/01/12/cancao-nova-hacked-and-accounts-dumped/
    
49. http://news.softpedia.com/news/Online-Storage-and-File-Hosting-Site-FileDEN-Hacked-Users-Exposed-246059.shtml
    
50. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16526067
    
51. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/under-malware-attack-smart-cards-used-by-us-government-agencies/10049
    
52. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/israeli-saudi-hackers-in-confusing-credit-card-publishing-war/2012/01/12/gIQA3QCFuP_blog.html
53. http://www.databreaches.net/?p=22825
    
54. http://pastebin.com/u/hannibal
    
55. https://twitter.com/#!/YamaTough/status/157986900785893376
    
56. http://news.discovery.com/space/jaxa-virus-data-htv-computer-120113.html
    
57. http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2012/01/13/operation-italy-takes-down-government-website.html
    
58. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/01/12/MN4Q1MO9JK.DTL
    
59. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/01/13/namesco_phish_like_security_warning/
    
60. http://thehackernews.com/2012/01/self-claimed-hacker-ankit-fadia-hacked.html
    
61. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/01/15/accounts-dumped-from-orion-si/
    
62. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/01/16/t-mobile-hacked-and-accounts-leaked/
    
63. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/01/14/asus-websites-hacked/
64. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/01/16/nightmare-joins-0xomar-for-attacks-on-tel-aviv-stock-exchange-and-israel-airline/
65. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/01/16/20000-facebooks-hacked-and-leaked-by-hannibal/
66. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/01/16/david-morgan-hacked-24000-accounts-leaked-by-p0keu/
67. http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/01/16/ashton-kutcher-foursquare-twitter-hack/
68. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57359471-93/huffpos-twitter-account-hacked/
69. http://pastebin.com/u/stk
70. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/01/16/catalyst-gaming-hacked-and-2000-accounts-dumped/
71. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/01/16/nigerian-armys-website-hacked-and-defaced-by-naijacyberhack/
72. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/01/16/pakistan-horticulture-development-website-hacked-and-accounts-leaked-by-muldaria48/
73. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/01/16/300-hacked-and-defaced-website-for-ops-freedom-palestine/

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