2020 Cyber Attacks Statistics
As promised, I have pulled together some statistics from the data collected in 2020. The master table is available at the end of the post after the charts.
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December 2020 Cyber Attacks Statistics
And finally the last blog for the 2020 monthly statistics series is here! For sure you know that the statistics are derived from the corresponding timelines, and maybe you also know that in the next few days I will publish the aggregated data for 2020…
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16-31 December 2020 Cyber Attacks Timeline
And finally the last timeline for 2020 is published (in the next few days I will publish the statistics for December and the whole 2020). In this second timeline of December I have collected 97 events. Despite this number shows a clear decrease compared with the first timeline (where I collected 125 events), you need to consider that…
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Cloud-Native Threats in 2020
Among the various things that I have done in 2020, there is the collection of the main cyber attacks that have exploited cloud services in the kill chain. I have built a personal (and obviously incomplete) list using publicly available information. The complete timeline is available at the end of the post, while some statistics are summarized in the following charts…
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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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November 2020 Cyber Attacks Statistics
After the two timelines, I can finally publish the corresponding cyber attacks statistics. This month I have analyzed 196 events, and the clear decrease compared to October is mainly due to…
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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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