Last Updated on May 24, 2015
It’s time to aggregate the Cyber Attacks Timelines of June (Part I and Part II) into statistics.
So, as usual, let’s start with the Daily Trend of Attacks chart, which shows quite an irregular trend with a sharp peak on the 11th.
The Motivations Behind Attacks chart confirms once again Cyber Crime at number one with 65% of occurrences. Overall the values are almost specular to the previous month. Particularly meaningful is the 11% of operations motivated by Cyber Espionage.
The Distribution Of Attack Techniques chart shows a 27.4% of unknown attacks, a result in line with the previous month when this value was 26%. The rise of DDoS is another interesting aspects (this technique is increasingly used to blackmail victims), as also the 9.7% of targeted attacks, a relatively high value for this class, and, again, in line with the previous month.
Once again, Industry leads the Distribution of Targets Chart with 35.5%. Governmental targets rank at number two, close to 20%, well ahead of Organizations at number three with a modest 6.5%.
Drilling down the Distribution of targets belonging to industry, shows quite an heterogeneous landscape. Software industries lead the chart with 22.7%, followed by Restaurants (??) with 13.6% and Financial Services (9.1%). All the other categories are well behind with a “flat” 4.5% each.
As usual, please bear in mind that the sample must be taken very carefully since it refers only to discovered attacks included in my timelines. The sample does not pretend to be exhaustive but only aims to provide an high level overview of the “cyber landscape”, or at least of the ones that gained space in the media (yes, using an abused expression this is just the tip of the Iceberg).
Additionally, 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, 2013 and now 2014 (regularly updated). You may also want to have a look at the Cyber Attack Statistics.
Of course follow @paulsparrows on Twitter for the latest updates, and feel free to submit remarkable incidents that in your opinion deserve to be included in the timelines (and charts).
