And after the corresponding timelines (part I and part II), I can finally publish the statics for the month of July 2021. In this month I have collected a total of 186 events (6.2 events per day). A sharp decrease in comparison to the number achieved in June (211).
Once again, but this is no surprise, cyber crime leads the Motivations chart with 78.5%, considerably down from 85.8% of June. And similarly, it’s absolutely no surprise the fact that malware continues to lead the Attack Techniques chart with 40.3%, a value in line with June (40.8%). And the real value could be even higher since some malware-based attacks are filed as “Unknown” as the victims do not disclose enough information.
Attacks against multiple targets retaom the leadership of the Target Distribution chart with 23.1%, from 17.8% of June, and for the third month in a row, ahead of public administrations.
Check out the interactive charts and the statistics, also available as an infographic.

May 2022 Cyber Attack Statistics
After the corresponding cyber attacks timelines, it’s time to publish the statistics of May 2022 once again, unsurprisingly, characterized by…

16-31 May 2022 Cyber Attacks Timeline
The second timeline of May 2022 is out. In the second half of the month I collected 120 events, corresponding to an average of 7.50 events/day, an important…

1-15 May 2022 Cyber Attacks Timeline
The first timeline of May 2022 is out. In the first half of the month I collected 101 events, that is an average of 6.73 events/day. The level of activity, reflected by…

April 2022 Cyber Attacks Statistics
After the cyber attacks timelines, it’s time to publish the statistics of April 2022, once again characterized…

16-30 April 2022 Cyber Attacks Timeline
The second timeline of April 2022 is finally out. In this fortnight I have collected 97 events that corresponds to an average of 6.47 events/day, despite…

1-15 April 2022 Cyber Attacks Timeline
After the peak of March (in the meantime I have added more records to the previous timeline bringing the total to 150), the level of activity continues to be…

Leaky Buckets in 2022
Similarly to what I have done in 2021, I am now collecting the incidents due to cloud misconfigurations and leading to the exposure of data.

Cloud-Native Threats in 2022
This blog post lists the main cloud-native threats, that is those cyber events exploiting the cloud in one or more stage of the kill chain. I have collected…

The Biggest Data Breaches of 2022
Similarly to what I have done in 2021, I am collecting all the mega breaches (with more than 1 million records leaked). The information is derived from the cyber attacks timelines…

June 2021 Cyber Attacks Statistics
Yesterday I have published the Cyber Attacks Timelines of June (part I and part II), so now I can finally publish the statistics. In June I have collected 211 significant events…
As always bear in mind that the sample refers exclusively to the attacks included in my timelines, available from public sources such as blogs and news sites. Obviously the sample cannot be complete, but only aims to provide an high level overview of the threat landscape.
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May 2022 Cyber Attack Statistics
After the corresponding cyber attacks timelines, it’s time to publish the statistics of May 2022 once again, unsurprisingly, characterized by…

16-31 May 2022 Cyber Attacks Timeline
The second timeline of May 2022 is out. In the second half of the month I collected 120 events, corresponding to an average of 7.50 events/day, an important…

1-15 May 2022 Cyber Attacks Timeline
The first timeline of May 2022 is out. In the first half of the month I collected 101 events, that is an average of 6.73 events/day. The level of activity, reflected by…

April 2022 Cyber Attacks Statistics
After the cyber attacks timelines, it’s time to publish the statistics of April 2022, once again characterized…

16-30 April 2022 Cyber Attacks Timeline
The second timeline of April 2022 is finally out. In this fortnight I have collected 97 events that corresponds to an average of 6.47 events/day, despite…

1-15 April 2022 Cyber Attacks Timeline
After the peak of March (in the meantime I have added more records to the previous timeline bringing the total to 150), the level of activity continues to be…

Leaky Buckets in 2022
Similarly to what I have done in 2021, I am now collecting the incidents due to cloud misconfigurations and leading to the exposure of data.

Cloud-Native Threats in 2022
This blog post lists the main cloud-native threats, that is those cyber events exploiting the cloud in one or more stage of the kill chain. I have collected…

The Biggest Data Breaches of 2022
Similarly to what I have done in 2021, I am collecting all the mega breaches (with more than 1 million records leaked). The information is derived from the cyber attacks timelines…

16-31 July Cyber Attacks Timeline
After some rest, the second cyber attacks timeline of July is finally out. It looks like the vacation period has brought a small break…

May 2022 Cyber Attack Statistics
After the corresponding cyber attacks timelines, it’s time to publish the statistics of May 2022 once again, unsurprisingly, characterized by…

16-31 May 2022 Cyber Attacks Timeline
The second timeline of May 2022 is out. In the second half of the month I collected 120 events, corresponding to an average of 7.50 events/day, an important…

1-15 May 2022 Cyber Attacks Timeline
The first timeline of May 2022 is out. In the first half of the month I collected 101 events, that is an average of 6.73 events/day. The level of activity, reflected by…

April 2022 Cyber Attacks Statistics
After the cyber attacks timelines, it’s time to publish the statistics of April 2022, once again characterized…

16-30 April 2022 Cyber Attacks Timeline
The second timeline of April 2022 is finally out. In this fortnight I have collected 97 events that corresponds to an average of 6.47 events/day, despite…

1-15 April 2022 Cyber Attacks Timeline
After the peak of March (in the meantime I have added more records to the previous timeline bringing the total to 150), the level of activity continues to be…

Leaky Buckets in 2022
Similarly to what I have done in 2021, I am now collecting the incidents due to cloud misconfigurations and leading to the exposure of data.

Cloud-Native Threats in 2022
This blog post lists the main cloud-native threats, that is those cyber events exploiting the cloud in one or more stage of the kill chain. I have collected…

The Biggest Data Breaches of 2022
Similarly to what I have done in 2021, I am collecting all the mega breaches (with more than 1 million records leaked). The information is derived from the cyber attacks timelines…

1-15 July 2021 Cyber Attacks Timeline
The first cyber attacks timeline of July is finally out. In this fortnight I have collected 101 events, a number in line with the previous one (102), confirming…
May 2022 Cyber Attack Statistics
After the corresponding cyber attacks timelines, it’s time to publish the statistics of May 2022 once again, unsurprisingly, characterized by...
16-31 May 2022 Cyber Attacks Timeline
The second timeline of May 2022 is out. In the second half of the month I collected 120 events, corresponding to an average of 7.50 events/day, an important...
The Biggest Data Breaches of 2021
With this new project I am going to track the biggest data breaches of 2021 extracted from my cyber attack timelines.
Q1 2022 Cyber Attacks Statistics
I have aggregated the statistics created from the cyber attacks timelines published in the first three months of 2022. In total I have collected...
2019 Cyber Attacks Statistics
As I promised few days ago, I have aggregated and analyzed the events collected in the cyber attacks timelines for the whole 2019, producing some (hopefully) interesting stats. At the end the total sample is composed of 1802 events, which is a sharp increase in ...
