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May 2012 Cyber Attacks Timeline (Part I)

  • Post author:Paolo Passeri
  • Post last modified:May 24, 2015
  • Post category:Cyber Attacks Timelines/Security
  • Post comments:1 Comment
  • Reading time:7 mins read
  • Post published:May 17, 2012

Update June 4 2012: May 2012 Cyber Attacks Timeline (Part II)

As usual here it is the timeline of the Main Cyber Attacks occurred in May (at least according to my evaluation criteria).

This first half of the month has seen the arrival of a new hacking collective, “The Unknowns”, who has performed an impressive trail of attacks during the first days of May, targeting Space Agencies, Universities, and several other organizations. Although these events appear to be closer to cyber crime actions rather than hactivistim-driven attacks, they have not been the most remarkable ones of these days: as a matter of fact chronicles report of a massive breach at the Hangzhou Dianzi University, targeting approximately 150.000 acccounts.

As far as hacktivism is concerned, this first half of May has confirmed the constant trend of DDoS attacks targeting high profile websites such as SOCA and CIA (once again) and the Supreme Court in retaliation for the U.K. extradition laws.

Interesting to mention is also an alleged Cyber Espionage campaign targeting networks belonging to US natural gas pipeline companies.

If you want to have an idea of how fragile our data are inside the cyberspace, have a look at the timelines of the main Cyber Attacks in 2011 and 2012 (regularly updated), and follow @paulsparrows on Twitter for the latest updates.

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June 2012 Cyber Attacks Timeline (Part I)

  • Post author:Paolo Passeri
  • Post last modified:May 24, 2015
  • Post category:Cyber Attacks Timelines/Security
  • Post comments:0 Comments
  • Reading time:9 mins read
  • Post published:June 18, 2012

Update 07/05/2012: June 2012 Cyber Attacks Timeline (Part II)

A (first half of the) month living dangerously…

June has come and strongly confirms that Summer is the preferred month for Cybercrookers: just look back at June 2011 and you will probably remember the days of Lulz of the infamous LulzSec Collective (which curiously seems to be reborn!).

June 2012 has shown a remarkable number of incidents and is proving to be a mensis horribilis (horrible month) for Social Networks and Online Services in general, due to the high profile breaches of LinkedIn, Last.Fm, eHarmony and the online game League of Legends.

On a geographic scale, looks like China is becoming another important source of Cyber incidents, having been targeted from #TeamGhostShell, who claim, inside their #ProjectDragonFly, to have obtained up to 800,000 accounts from different sources.

Hacktivism-led actions seem (apparently) to decline, whilst, on the Cyber Crime front, a new collective, UGNazi, is taking the scene, having confirmed, in the first part of June, the wake of cyber attacks, we have become familiar with for some time.

Another Infosec Summer promising to be very hot!

If you want to have an idea of how fragile our data are inside the cyberspace, have a look at the timelines of the main Cyber Attacks in 2011 and 2012 (regularly updated), 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 timeline.

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