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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