1-15 August 2023 Cyber Attacks Timeline
In the first timeline of August, I collected 169 events (corresponding to 11.27 events per day), a considerable decrease compared to the the second half of July...
In the first timeline of August, I collected 169 events (corresponding to 11.27 events per day), a considerable decrease compared to the the second half of July...
In the second half of April 2023 I collected 180 events (corresponding to 12 events/day), a sharp increase compared to...
The second cyber attacks timeline of January 2023 is out. In the second half of the month I collected...
In the second timeline of November, I have collected 141 events (corresponding to 9.4 events per day), a value slightly higher than...
Unsurprisingly, the level of cyber activity continued to be quite sustained even during the second half of September. In this timeline...
The first timeline of June 2022 is out. In the first half of the month I collected 109 events, corresponding to an average of 7.27 events/day, in line with the sustained level of activity that is characterizing the latest months. And if...
And even the second timeline of February 2022 is finally out with 92 records that, distributed on 12 days, bring the average number of events per day to 7.07, an increase compared with...
The first timeline of February is here! I am happy to introduce the "Breachometer", a counter that measures how the current timeline stacks up with the values recorded in the previous 12 months.
It's time to catch up with the timelines, so let's go with a new one collecting the main cyber events occurred in the second half of May. In this timeline I have collected "only" 72 events, including 9 occurred in the previous weeks, so definitely a sharp drop in comparison to the numbers we have been used to in the previous weeks, after the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis. Here we are again with the mega breaches...
The first half of November is gone, so it’s time for the list of the main cyber attacks occurred during these fifteen days.
Confirming the trend of the last months, the activity has been quite sustained. For sure, the most remarkable attack has targeted the Turkish branch of HSBC, and has affected 2.7 million customers, whose credit cards have been compromised (and apparently the bank has decided not to issue new cards for the impacted users).
Again the operations related to cyber espionage have played an important role: some new campaigns have come to light (for instance Darkhotel), and also several noticeable attacks have been discovered, like the one against the United States Postal Service (600,000 users affected) or the one against the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.
Even hacktivists have been quite active: the RedHack collective has reemerged from several months in stealth mode (they claim to have deleted 650,000 USD worth 0f electricity power debt), and some hackers claiming to be affiliated to the Anonymous collective have performed similar operations in Italy (in parallel with the delicate social and economical period) and the Philippines.
If you want to have an idea of how fragile our electronic identity is inside the cyberspace, have a look at the timelines of the main Cyber Attacks in 2011, 2012, 2013 and now 2014 (regularly updated). You may also want to have a look at the Cyber Attack Statistics, and follow @paulsparrows on Twitter for the latest updates.
Also, feel free to submit remarkable incidents that in your opinion deserve to be included in the timelines (and charts).