1-15 September Cyber Attacks Statistics

Last Updated on May 24, 2015

I know, September is nearly gone, but it is the time for the cyber stats related to the first half of September. As you know, they are derived from my Cyber Attack Timeline.

A look at the Motivations Behind Attacks chart, shows that apparently the Sun of August is the best period for hacktivism, since September has shown the overtake of Cyber Crime motivated attacks which reported the 56% of occurrences inside the analyzed sample.

The Distribution Of Attack Techniques confirms the domain od SQL Injection with nearly the 50% of the attacks. The fall of DDoS in this unwelcome charts is attributable to the minor number of attacks Motivated by Hacktivism

After all, apparently the Governments keep on investing an inadequate amount of money for securing their infrastructure: in fact they continue to lead the Distribution of Targets chart with the 30% of occurrences, nearly twice than the industry sector which ranks at number two with the 16%. Among the single targets (in fact the sectors od industries and organizations are higly fragmented) the edcuational institutions are the most targeted afer governments. Online activities (miscellaneous services, online games, online gambling and e-commerce sites), summed together reach the considerable number of 14%.

As usual, I will never get tired of repeating that data must be taken very carefully since they do refer only to discovered attacks (the so-called tip of the iceberg), and hence do not pretend to be exhaustive but only aim to provide an high level overview of the “cyber landscape” of the considered period.

If you want to have an idea of how fragile our data are inside the cyberspace, have a look at the timelines of the main Cyber Attacks in 2011 and 2012 (regularly updated), and follow @paulsparrows on Twitter for the latest updates.

Also, feel free to submit remarkable incidents that in your opinion deserve to be included in the timelines (and charts).