Last Updated on May 24, 2015
It’s time for the statistics derived from the Cyber Attacks Timelines of December (Part I and Part II).
As a consolidated tradition, the first chart to be shown is the Daily Attack Trend, which shows quite a constant trend with two peaks just at the beginning and at the end of the month.
The Country Distribution Chart is quite monotonous: as usual the United States lead the chart (with nearly one half of the recorded attacks), well above UK (at rank number two with 8%). The other countries are quite far this month…
The Motivations Behind Attacks chart shows a clear predominance of Cyber Crime (62%) against Hacktivism (34%), a sharp increase of the first in comparison with the previous month when the values were respectively 53% and 45%.
Well, 28.4% of attacks into the Distribution of Attack Techniques chart are without a known origin (a sharp increase in comparison to 23.1% of the previous month). Defacements plummeted at 18.9% in comparison to 29.7% of the previous month), while DDoSes are in slight increase with 17.9% (was 15.4 one month ago). It is also interested to notice the growth of SQLi, at 12.6% against 4.4% of November.
Last but not least, the Distribution of Target chart, where a change at rank number one happened. In practice industry and government targets swapped their positions (with similar values in comparison to the previous month). Financial targets close the podium, leaving behind the other categories.
As usual, please bear in mind that the sample must be taken very carefully since it refers only to discovered attacks, published in the news, and included in my timelines. The sample cannot be exhaustive but only aims to provide an high level overview of the “cyber landscape”.
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).
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