16-31 July 2023 Cyber Attacks Timeline
New victims of attacks carried out by the Clop (AKA Cl0p) ransomware gang exploiting the CVE-2023-34362 MOVEit vulnerability emerged even during...
New victims of attacks carried out by the Clop (AKA Cl0p) ransomware gang exploiting the CVE-2023-34362 MOVEit vulnerability emerged even during...
I have aggregated the statistics created from the cyber attacks timelines published in the second quarter of 2023. In total I have collected 1040 events...
After the cyber attacks timelines, it’s time to publish the statistics of June 2023 where I have collected and analyzed 354 events...
Let’s kick off this infosec year with the first cyber attacks timeline for January 2023. In this fortnight I have collected...
Unsurprisingly, the level of cyber activity continued to be quite sustained even during the second half of September. In this timeline...
During August 2021, I have collected 170 events that I can finally aggregate into (hopefully useful) statistics. This number represents a 10% decrease in comparison to the
The second timeline of May is finally out confirming the decreasing trend (at least in terms of recorded events) that we have seen in the last few months. In fact, in this timeline I have collected...
The first timeline of May is out! In this timeline I have collected 89 events, with an average rate of 5.9 events per day, that’s...
The second timeline of April is finally out! In this timeline I have collected 123 events, with an average rate of 8 events per day. A daily value slightly higher than the previous timeline...
If you need to know what Cyber Crime is but you are bored and fed up with the too many information security terms, loosing yourself among the acronyms, you have stumbled upon the correct place. I have just compiled a very special alphabet which collects the terms related to Cybercrime. Forgive me for some “poetic license” and enjoy this half-serious list.
Yes, the Advanced Persistent Threats have been the undisputed protagonists of 2011. An APT is essentially an attack carried on with different vectors, different stages and on a distributed time windows (yes, it Persistent). APT are behind the most remarkable events of 2011 such as the RSA Breach, Stuxnet, and so on…
Botnet are networks of compromised machines that are used by cybercriminals to perpetrate their malicious action. Tipically a compromised machine becomes part of a botnet where the master distributes the commands from a C&C Server. Command may include the theft of information or the attack to other machines.
The last frontier of Cybercrime: why developing costly malware if you can find a wide offer of customizable malware on the black market offering help desk and support services?
Data Leackage (or Lost) prevention is a suite of technologies that may help organization to counter the theft of information by preventing misuse or leak of data while they are in use at the endpoint (DIU), in transit on the network (DIM), or simply it is an aggregated Dark Matter on the corporate servers (DAR) that needs to be indexed and cataloged (and possibly classified and assessed).