1-15 December 2020 Cyber Attacks Timeline

I am catching up with the cyber attacks timelines for this troubled 2020, which has nearly come to an end. I am happy to publish the first timeline of December, covering the most important events occurred in the first two weeks of this month. Before going into the details let me say that you will hopefully note a change. Starting from this timeline, I have decided to report three different dates for each event...

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16-30 November 2020 Cyber Attacks Timeline

It's time to publish the second timeline of November covering the main cyber attacks occurred in the second half of the same month. This timeline shows a small increase in the number of collected events...

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1-15 November 2020 Cyber Attacks Timeline

Here we are with the first timeline of November, covering the main cyber attacks occurred in the first half of the same month (as usual with some additional events that were disclosed in the considered period). In this timeline I have collected 100 events, but this number also includes...

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October 2020 Cyber Attacks Statistics

t's time to publish the statistics for October derived from the two cyber attacks timelines. For this month, I have taken into consideration 223 events, despite you need to consider that 17 events alone are related to 17 companies, whose data (an aggregated of 34 million records) was put on sale on October 28.

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16-31 October 2020 Cyber Attacks Timeline

It's time to publish the second timeline of October, covering the main cyber attacks happened in the second half of the month, plus some additional events that occurred before this period, but were discovered or disclosed in the considered interval. This timeline contains 119 events, so apparently the break in the previous timelines was just an illusion. Unsurprisingly ransomware plays an important role in these numbers: almost one out of three events is...

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1-15 October 2020 Cyber Attacks Timeline

The first cyber attacks timeline of October is here! This list contains 100 events (including 7 occurred before), a number very close to the one recorded in the previous month (100). Needless to say, ransomware continues...

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September 2020 Cyber Attacks Statistics

After the two cyber attacks timelines of September, it's time to publish the corresponding statistics. In this month I have collected a total of 201 events, which represents the new record, after the 197 of August. The Daily Trend chart reflects...

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16-30 September 2020 Cyber Attacks Timeline

It's time to publish the second timeline of September. This timeline confirms the trend of the latest months with 101 events (including 4 occurred outside the considered interval). Needless to say, ransomware continued to dominate...

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