Last Updated on May 24, 2015
I know, I am a little late this month. We have just entered May and I was able to publish the first part of the Timeline of April. I will try to maintain the usual rhythm and to be more punctual for the next releases.
Anyway, the first part of April has offered many interesting port with several large scale attacks and massive breaches. The first category includes the Darkleech malware against Apache, and the gigantic brute-force attack against WordPress. The second category includes the attacks against two primary Japanese portals, the FPS War Z, Scribd, Linode, and, most of all Schnucks Markets, targeting potentially 2.4 million users.
But not only Cyber Crime in this month, even the hacktivists were quite active with their OpIsrael 2 (and its controversial damage report), the wake of attacks against North Korean web sites, and even the sixth week of DDoS attacks against the U.S. Banks carried on under the so-called Operation Ababil.
Hard times for System Administrators!
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, 2012 and now 2013 (regularly updated). You may also want to have a look at the Cyber Attack Statistics, 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).
1. http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/04/exclusive-ongoing-malware-attack-targeting-apache-hijacks-20000-sites/
2. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/040413-japanese-web-portals-hacked-up-268387.html
3. http://thenextweb.com/asia/2013/04/02/anonymous-hackers-claim-15000-passwords-grabbed-from-north-koreas-uriminzokkiri-site/
4. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2013/04/02/uk-commonwealth-bank-site-hacked-data-leaked/
5. https://www.cyberguerrilla.org/blog/?p=10162
6. http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/04/war-z-taken-offline-following-hack-that-exposed-user-passwords/
7. http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/04/anonymous-hackers-take-control-of-north-korean-propaganda-sites/
8. http://hilf-ol-fozoul.blogspot.com/2013/04/bb-has-gotten-out-of-reach-completely.html
9. http://www.zdnet.com/up-to-1-million-scribd-user-passwords-may-have-been-compromised-7000013595/
10. https://www.facebook.com/MtGox/posts/453409538076792
11. http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/08/hacker-steals-12000-worth-of-bitcoins-in-brazen-dns-based-attack/
12. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2013/04/04/museum-with-no-frontiers-hacked-user-passport-credentials-leaked/
13. http://hilf-ol-fozoul.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-biggest-bank-in-us-has-targeted-of.html
14. http://news.softpedia.com/news/Instawallet-Hacked-Mt-Gox-Hit-by-Major-DDOS-Attack-342913.shtml
15. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2013/04/06/publisher-standard-digital-hacked-staff-clients-and-user-credentials-leaked/
16. http://hilf-ol-fozoul.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-wells-fargo-and-bb-banks-today-have.html
17. http://news.softpedia.com/news/Online-Services-of-Dutch-Banks-Disrupted-by-DDOS-Attacks-343468.shtml
18. http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2013/04/05/harmonix-investigating-server-hack.aspx
19. http://datalossdb.org/incidents/9952-482-accounts-including-user-names-and-clear-text-passwords-dumped-on-the-internet
20. http://www.ehackingnews.com/2013/04/first-national-bank-security-breach.html
21. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2013/04/09/midwest-bankcentre-hacked-and-data-leaked/
22. http://www.phiprivacy.net/?p=12312
23. http://crypt0nymous.tumblr.com/post/47270432228/list-of-confirmed-affected-websites-during-opisrael
24. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2013/04/08/israeli-avg-reseller-hacked-data-leaked-for-opisrael-v2/
25. http://datalossdb.org/incidents/9954-2-adminstrator-and-680-user-accounts-including-email-addresses-and-encrypted-passwords-which-have-been-cracked-with-clear-text-matches-dumped-on-the-internet
26. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2013/04/08/idf-information-site-hacked-600-accounts-leaked-for-opisrael-v2/
27. http://news.softpedia.com/news/Hacktivists-Target-Over-100-000-Israeli-Sites-Officials-Say-There-s-No-Real-Damage-343610.shtml
28. http://www.southwestiowanews.com/council_bluffs/news/other/hackers-hit-iowa-college-database-with-students/article_3dfaa834-a08e-11e2-a5c4-0019bb2963f4.html
29. http://news.softpedia.com/news/Anonymous-Hacks-Belgian-Fire-Department-s-Site-in-Protest-Against-Abuse-of-Young-Girl-343732.shtml
30. http://hilf-ol-fozoul.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-cyber-attacks-against-us-banks.html
31. http://hilf-ol-fozoul.blogspot.com/2013/04/which-banks-today-have-targeted-of.html
32. http://hilf-ol-fozoul.blogspot.it/2013/04/the-cyber-attack-to-regions-bank.html
33. http://blog.cloudflare.com/patching-the-internet-fixing-the-wordpress-br
34. http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/04/more-then-30-mmorpg-companies-targeted-in-ongoing-malware-attack/
35. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2013/04/11/azerbaijan-ministry-of-communications-and-information-technologies-documents-leaked/
36. http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-sign-hacked-usc-20130411,0,4741633.story
37. http://hilf-ol-fozoul.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-key-bank-and-hsbc-are-next-qassams.html
38. http://news.softpedia.com/news/Gigabyte-Website-Defaced-by-Hackers-A-Lot-345200.shtml
39. http://www.decaturdaily.com/stories/Hackers-got-personal-info-from-state-computers,116956
40. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/14/world/middleeast/hackers-reveal-witness-names-in-hariri-murder-trial.html
41. http://www.thehackersblog.com/2013/04/6000-users-credentials-leaked-from.html#axzz2QVj4noE4
42. http://nopaste.me/paste/1610364386516a69d62dc4e
43. http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/04/14/venezuela-maduro-twitter-account-hacked/
44. http://www.databreaches.net/?p=27335
45. http://blog.linode.com/2013/04/16/security-incident-update/
46. https://twitter.com/T3AMM3DU5A/status/323833050385481728
47. http://thehackernews.com/2013/04/google-kenya-domain-defaced-by-tiger-mte.html
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