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2018: A Year of Cyber Attacks

January 15, 2019January 15, 2019 Paolo Passeri 1 Comment 2017, 2018, Cyber Attacks, Cyber Crime, Cyber Espionage, Cyber Warfare, Hacktivism, Statistics, Timeline

Finally I can summarize all the events and statistics collected in 2018, quite a complicated year from an infosec perspective. For those of you that keep asking…

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December 2018 Cyber Attacks Statistics

January 9, 2019January 9, 2019 Paolo Passeri 0 Comments 2018, Cyber Attacks, Cyber Crime, Cyber Espionage, Cyber Warfare, Hacktivism, Statistics

And after the timelines (part I and part II), it’s time to publish the last statistics for 2018. related to December, a month that has seen a slight decrease in the level of activity (oh the Christmas atmosphere). I have collected 106 events, 20 less than November.

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16-31 December 2018 Cyber Attacks Timeline

January 7, 2019January 8, 2019 Paolo Passeri 0 Comments 2018, APT10, Cloudhopper, COREU, Cyber Attacks, Dataresolution.net, December, Los Angeles Times, Ryuk, Timeline, Twitter, Wall Street Journal

Christmas holidays are gone, and it’s time to turn the page on this 2018 with the second timeline of December, the last one for the year just gone. Cyber Espionage is the main element of this timeline, with at least two…

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1-15 December 2018 Cyber Attacks Timeline

December 31, 2018January 1, 2019 Paolo Passeri 0 Comments 2018, APT28, Cyber Attacks, DarkVishnya, December, NRCC, Quora, Save the Children, Timeline, Turla

t’s time to publish the first timeline of December, covering the main cyber attacks occurred in the first half of the same month. In this fortnight have collected a total of 57 events (plus two that occurred in November that I included in this timeline), the same number of the second timeline of November, which confirms a sustained level of activity.

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November 2018 Cyber Attacks Statistics

December 28, 2018December 30, 2018 Paolo Passeri 0 Comments 2018, Cyber Attacks, Cyber Crime, Cyber Espionage, Cyber War, Hacktivism, November, Statistics

It’s time to publish the cyber attacks statistics derived from the timelines of November (part I and part II). This month I have collected a total of 126 events that confirm the growing trend (in October this number was 113), and position this month in the third place for 2018 behind February (133 events), and July (132).

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16-30 November 2018 Cyber Attacks Timeline

December 28, 2018December 30, 2018 Paolo Passeri 0 Comments APT28, APT29, APT32, Atrium Health, Hades, High Tail Hall, Knuddles.de, Marriott, MuddyWater, SPG Rewards, The Lazarus Group

It’s time to publish the second timeline of November, covering the main cyber attacks occurred between November 16 and November 30, plus a few events occurred in November that I missed in the previous timeline. Autumn seems to be particularly inspiring for crooks…

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1-15 November 2018 Cyber Attacks Timeline

December 4, 2018December 30, 2018 Paolo Passeri 0 Comments #FifthOfNovember, 2018, Anonymous, APT29, Cozy Bear, Cyber Attacks, Cyber Crime, Cyber Espionage, Elon Musk, Hacktivism, November, TEMP.Periscope, Timeline, Twitter, White Company

It’s time to publish the first timeline of November, covering the main cyber attacks occurred between November 1st, and November 15th. For this fortnight, I have collected 67 events: one of the highest numbers I remember. So it looks like that crypto scammers are flooding Twitter…

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October 2018 Cyber Attacks Statistics

November 21, 2018December 30, 2018 Paolo Passeri 0 Comments 2018, Cyber Attacks, Cyber Crime, Cyber Espionage, Cyber Warfare, Hacktivism, October, Statistics

It’s time to publish the statistics derived from the cyber attack timelines of October (Part I and Part II): this month I have collected a total of 113 events, a slight increase compared with September, when I collected 106 events.

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16-31 October 2018 Cyber Attacks Timeline

November 19, 2018December 30, 2018 Paolo Passeri 0 Comments 2018, Cathay Pacific, Cyber Attacks, GreyEnergy, MapleChange, October, Op #FifthOfNovember, Timeline, Trade.io

It’s time to publish the second timeline of October, covering the main events occurred between October 16 and October 31 (the first timeline is here). The total number of collected events is 58, showing a light increase compared with the 54 events of the previous fortnight.

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1-15 October 2018 Cyber Attacks Timeline

October 30, 2018December 30, 2018 Paolo Passeri 0 Comments APT10, APT28, Black Energy, FruityArmor, Gallmaker, Nomadic Octopus, State Bank of Mauritius, Super Micro, SWIFT

The first cyber attack timeline of October is ready: this fortnight I have collected 54 events, with a level of activity in line with September when I reported respectively 56 and 55 events in the first, and second half of the previous month.

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