During August 2021, I have collected 170 events that I can finally aggregate into (hopefully useful) statistics. This number represents a 10% decrease in comparison to the 186 events collected in July that confirms a generally decreasing Summer trend.
Cyber crime leads the Motivations chart and with its 87.6% is back to the values of June (from 78.5%, in August). Similarly, Malware continues to dominate the Attack Techniques chart with 43.5%, up from 40.3% recorded in July (and once again bear in mind that the real value could be even higher than this, since some malware-based attacks are filed as “Unknown” as the victims do not disclose enough information.) What is also significant to note, is the growing impact of vulnerabilities that now account for roughly one event out of ten (and curiously the percentage of August and July is the same).
And similarly to the previous month, attacks against multiple targets keep the leadership of the Target Distribution chart with 25.9% (from 23.1% of July) ahead of healthcare and public administration targets.
Check out the interactive charts and the statistics, also available as an infographic.

May 2022 Cyber Attack Statistics
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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
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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
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The Biggest Data Breaches of 2022
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July 2021 Cyber Attacks Statistics
And after the corresponding timelines, I can finally publish the statics for the month of July 2021. In this month I have collected…
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 August 2021 Cyber Attacks Timeline
Here we go! The second timeline of August 2021 is out covering the main cyber attacks occurred in the second fortnight of the same month. And it looks like that the end of Summer led…

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 August 2021 Cyber Attacks Timeline
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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...
2021 Cyber Attacks Statistics
And finally I have aggregated all the data collected in 2021 from the cyber attacks timelines. In the past year I have collected 2539 events, meaning...
March 2022 Cyber Attacks Statistics
After the cyber attacks timelines, it’s finally time to publish the statistics of March 2022 (spoiler alert) characterized by the events...
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...
