Last Updated on March 24, 2016
It’s now time to publish the statistics derived from the Cyber Attacks Timelines of February (Part I and Part II).
Let’s start from the Daily Trend of Attacks, which shows a slow start, immediately followed by a plateau, a peak concentrated on the 15th, and finally a stable trend until the end of the month.
One again, Cyber Crime ranks on top of the Motivations Behind Attacks chart with 62.7%, substantially stable and in line with January (was 60.6%). Hacktivism ranks at number two, nearly with the same value reported in January (28% vs 27.7%). Cyber Espionage ranks at number three with 5.3% (was 7.4% in January), while attacks motivated by Cyber Warfare are equally substantially stable with 4% (was 4.3% in January).
The Attack Techniques were unknown in 41.3% of the cases. Account Hijackings are immediately behind with 12%, and SQLi achieve an impressive 10.7%. Impressive are also the percentages of targeted attacks (9.3%) and malware (6.7%). All the other techniques follow…
Industries lead the Distribution of Targets chart with 29.3% (was 22.3% in January), ahead of Governments (14.7%, was 17.0% in January) and Finance, Law Enforcement Agencies and Single Individuals (each of them at 8%). Organizations (6.7%), Online Services (5.3%) and Education (4.0%) emerge on the other targets.
For the second month in a row, software Companies lead the Industry Drill Down Chart with 13.6%, but this time they share the higher stand of the podium with E-Commerce. Job seeking and Telco emerge from the rest of the group.
Software also leads the Organization Drill Down Chart.
As usual, the sample must be taken very carefully since it refers only to discovered attacks included in my timelines, aiming 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, 2013, 2014 and now 2015 (regularly updated). You may also want to have a look at the Cyber Attack Statistics.
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