Last Updated on June 6, 2015
It is time for the report of the cyber landscape of the second half of November.
This month will be probably remembered for the discovery of the giant breach targeting Cupid Media and involving potentially 42 million users. However, this was not the only remarkable breach of November: chronicles report of 77,000 customers of Vodafone Island having their details leaked.
Other interesting events involve a brute-force attack to GitHub, forcing several users to change password, and yet another attack against a Bitcoin Wallet (the equivalent of $1 million stole).
Not only Cyber Criminals. Even Hacktivists were particularly active in this period: the attacks of Indonesian hackers against Australian targets continued in the second part of November, as also the mutual defacements between Pakistani and Indian crews. Last but not least, the Anonymous leaked some documents and emails allegedly belonging to the Italian Governor of Lombardy and the details of 40,000 individuals from an Israeli Job search portal.
As usual, 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).
- http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-15/cme-group-says-its-computers-were-hacked-no-trades-affected.html
- http://news.softpedia.com/news/Web-Hosting-Provider-Hetzner-Hit-by-Large-DDOS-Attacks-401121.shtml
- http://www.scmagazine.com//battlefield-4-pc-servers-experience-ddos-attack/article/321506/
- http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/11/bitcoins-skyrocketing-value-ushers-in-era-of-1-million-hacker-heists/
- http://www.ehackingnews.com/2013/11/sun-tv-website-hacked-by-pakistan-hacker.html
- http://news.softpedia.com/news/Website-of-Peru-s-President-Hacked-and-Defaced-by-LulzSec-Peru-401074.shtml
- http://hackread.com/syrian-ministry-of-electricity-website-hacked-by-bghh/
- http://www.ehackingnews.com/2013/11/e-online-website-hacked-by-tesla-team.html
- http://news.softpedia.com/news/Anonymous-Attacks-Russian-Websites-for-the-Arrests-of-Greenpeace-Activists-Video-401262.shtml
- http://hackread.com/italian-hackers-team-hacks-8-nasa-domains/
- https://github.com/blog/1698-weak-passwords-brute-forced
- http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/11/repeated-attacks-hijack-huge-chunks-of-internet-traffic-researchers-warn/
- http://news.softpedia.com/news/Belo-Monte-Dam-Protest-Brazil-s-Main-Government-Portal-Disrupted-by-Anonymous-401527.shtml
- http://news.softpedia.com/news/Website-of-Peru-s-National-Police-Hacked-by-LulzSec-Peru-401451.shtml
- http://www.joystiq.com/2013/11/19/hacker-cracks-indies-paypal-account-orders-ps4s-with-crowdfund/
- http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/11/cupid-media-hack-exposed-42m-passwords/
- http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/11/new-backdoor-worm-found-attacking-websites-running-apache-tomcat/
- http://www.databreaches.net/kroll-background-america-hacked/
- http://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/211113/it-was-childs-play-how-hacker-broke-meps-secret-email-accounts
- http://www.zdnet.com/european-parliaments-network-hacked-public-wi-fi-network-shutdown-7000023733/
- http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-11-21-psn-eu-resets-many-user-passwords-as-a-precautionary-measure
- http://www.zdnet.com/au/afp-and-rba-websites-hit-by-ddos-attacks-7000023451/
- http://hackread.com/code-newbie-hacks-44-chinese-govt-sites/
- http://grahamcluley.com/2013/11/racing-post-website-hacked-customer-information-stolen/
- http://www.zdnet.com/indonesian-group-hacks-crime-stoppers-site-7000023601/
- http://hackread.com/indias-armed-forces-tribunal-website-hacked/
- http://hackread.com/billbong-int-domains-hacked-against-drones/
- http://hackread.com/capoo-tunisianoo-hacks-370-websites/
- http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2013/11/25/huge-italian-government-leaked-with-small-link-to-canada-child-porn-bust/
- http://www.scmagazine.com//anonymous-ddos-attack-snowballs-affects-several-microsoft-services/article/322945/
- http://www.zdnet.com/sonys-password-resets-bleed-from-eu-into-us-7000023653/
- http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2013/nov/25/yokes-fresh-markets-have-stopped-taking-credit-deb/
- http://www.esecurityplanet.com/network-security/crown-castle-acknowledges-data-breach.html
- http://news.softpedia.com/news/RedHack-Hackers-Post-Apology-on-PMs-Behalf-on-Website-of-Political-Party-403383.shtml
- http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/11/new-linux-worm-targets-routers-cameras-internet-of-things-devices/
- http://hackread.com/indian-hacker-hacks-jamat-ul-dawa-website/
- http://www.ehackingnews.com/2013/11/central-bank-of-india-hacked-by.html
- http://pastebin.com/7DRRNwgT
- http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/11/tv-news-team-falls-for-facebook-doppelganger-scam/
- http://www.uwmedicine.org/Global/News/Announcements/2013/Pages/UWMedicine-Notice-of-Computer-Security-Breach.aspx
- https://www.quickleak.org/8BfRpnH7
- http://www.ehackingnews.com/2013/11/government-site-defaced-tesla-team.html
- http://www.esecurityplanet.com/network-security/californias-flamingo-resort-and-spa-admits-data-breach.html
- http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2013/11/30/official-vodafone-iceland-hacked-and-defaced-with-77000-accounts-leaked/
- http://hackread.com/nigerian-hacks-pakistan-peoples-party-website/
- http://www.ehackingnews.com/2013/11/union-of-reserve-officers-of-armed.html
