Timeline – HACKMAGEDDON

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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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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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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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 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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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.