2012 Cyber Attacks Statistics
In this page I am collecting all the statistics derived from the Cyber Attacks Timelines on a monthly basis.
Again, no need to repeat that data must be taken very carefully since they do refers only to discovered attacks (the so-called tip of the iceberg), and hence do not pretend to be exhaustive but only aim to provide an high level overview of the global Cyber Landscape.
If you want, you may have a look at the timelines of the main Cyber Attacks in 2011 and 2012 (regularly updated), and do not forget to follow @paulsparrows on Twitter for the latest updates (on a bi-weekly basis).
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Could you please inform me how do you define the categories of cyber war, cyber crime, cyber espionage and so on? I am really interested in your statistics and your timelines as I need to find a data record of all cyber attacks on a monthly basis as much back in time as possible.
Thank you in advanve for your time and consideration
Hi Alex, sorry for my late reply.
My parameters to define the categories are quite simple.
Hacktivism includes those cyber attacks performed to promote (or motivated by) political or social scopes,
Cyber Crime includes those cyber attacks performed to harm people, by exposing information or stealing data, for lucrative purposes, or simply “for the lulz”,
It is much more harder to discriminate between Cyber Warfare and Cyber Espionage, since sometimes they are two faces of the same coin and, in my opinion, the two categories overlap. If a state illicitly infiltrates an enemy nation to damage systems and/or information, it executes an action of cyber war. If a state illicitly infiltrates an enemy nation to steal information or project plans, it executes an action of cyber espionage. Sometimes states illicitly infiltrate other states to damage systems and steal information. In my classification I use the term cyber espionage to define attacks aimed at the sole thieft of information (without apparent damages).
Hopes it helps and forgive my delay.
Cyber warfare is such a poor term. Saying cyber warfare is akin to say “Intelligence Warfare” or “Logistics Warfare”. IMHO what you describe is sabotage (if you want to append cyber in front of it, I guess that is O.K.).
Would you be interested in posting some of the raw data? I’d like to do some research and analysis on them as well. Good work, and thanks for doing all this.
Hi Kyle, currently I do not publish raw data. Email me @ ppasseri@gmail.com and I will send them to you.
Do we use the statistics at our presentations?
Sure! Only remember to kindly quote the source.
I am very interested as well. I’m currently in Grad school at AMU and I’m writing two papers on this exact subject, including the comparisons between Cyber -Warfare, -Activism, -Terrorism. One must include timelines and statistics, which is how I got to this page in the first place. …….and I’m VERY generous with citing sources as it is required for research papers. I’d appreciate any help. Thanks
Cheers
Ray