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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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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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January – September 2018 Cyber Attack Statistics

October 15, 2018December 30, 2018 Paolo Passeri 0 Comments Cyber Crime, Cyber Espionage, Cyber Warfare, Hacktivism

I have decided to write a dedicated blog post with all the attacks recorded so far in 2018 and the related statistics (with interactive charts). Some charts are also compared with the corresponding stats in 2017. The timeline containing all the events, which I will try to keep updated on monthly basis.

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September 2018 Cyber Attacks Statistics

October 11, 2018December 30, 2018 Paolo Passeri 0 Comments Cyber Attacks, Cyber Crime, Cyber Espionage, Cyber Warfare, Hacktivism, Statistics

t’s time to publish the statistics derived from the cyber attack timelines of September (Part I and Part II), a month that shows a new uptick in term of number of events given that I collected 106 events against the 80 of August.

And as always, let’s start with the Daily Trend of Attacks chart, where…

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16-30 September 2018 Cyber Attacks Timeline

October 10, 2018December 30, 2018 Paolo Passeri 0 Comments Barcelona, Chegg, Cyber Espionage, Cyber Warfare, Cybercrime, Facebook, Hacktivism, San Diego, Serverspy.com, SHEIN, Zaif

It’s time to publish the second timeline of September covering the main cyber attacks occurred between September 16th and September 30th (plus a few events that slipped away from the previous timeline. If you still have an account on Facebook…

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1-15 September 2018 Cyber Attacks Timeline

October 1, 2018December 30, 2018 Paolo Passeri 0 Comments 2018, APT10, British Airways, Cobalt, Cyber Attacks, Cyber Crime, Cyber Espionage, Cyber Warfare, DEOSGames, Domestic Kitten, EOSBet, Feedify, FIN6, Goblin Panda, Hacktivism, Magecart, OilRig, September, Timeline

It’s time to publish the first timeline of September, covering the main cyber attacks occurred between September 1st and September 15th (plus some August events that were disclosed in September, so could not appear in the previous timeline).

I collected 51 entries for September alone. Easily predictable, the numbers are growing compared to August: crooks are back in business after the Summer break.

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August 2018 Cyber Attacks Statistics

September 21, 2018December 30, 2018 Paolo Passeri 0 Comments 2018, August, Cyber Attacks, Cyber Espionage, Cyber Warfare, Cybercrime, Hacktivism, Statistics

After the two timeline of August (Part I and Part II), it’s time to publish the corresponding statistics.

August has been a month with two faces, with a first half quite lazy, and a tail of events in the second half. In any case, all in all I have collected 80 events, which seem quite few compared to the 130 of July.

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16-31 August Cyber Attacks Timeline

September 17, 2018December 30, 2018 Paolo Passeri 0 Comments 2018, Air Canada, APT28, August, China’s Tsinghua University, Cobalt, Cyber Attacks, Cyber Espionage, Cyber Warfare, Cybercrime, Hacktivism, Huazhu Group Ltd., Lazarus Group, T-Mobile, TA555, Timeline, Turla

Here we go with the second timeline of August covering the main cyber attacks occurred between August 16th and August 31st. A timeline apparently indicating that the malicious actors decided to end their summer break quite soon, as the number of recorded events is considerable higher that the first timeline.