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January 2012 Cyber Attacks Timeline (Part 1)


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New year, new Cyber Attacks Timeline. Let us start our Information Security Travel in 2012 with the chart of the attacks occurred in the first fifteen days of January. This month has been characterized so far by the leak of Symantec Source Code and the strange story of alleged Cyber Espionage revolving around it. But this was not the only remarkable event: chronicles tell the endless Cyber-war between Israel and a Saudi Hacker (and more in general the Arab World), but also a revamped activity of the Anonymous against SOPA (with peak in Finland). The end of the month has also reserved several remarkable events (such as the breaches to T-Mobile and Zappos, the latter affecting potentially 24,000,000 of users). In general this has been a very active period. For 2012 this is only the beginning, and if a good beginning makes a good ending, there is little to be quiet…

Browse the chart and follows @paulsparrows to be updated on a biweekly basis. As usual after the jump you will find all the references. Feel free to report wrong/missing links or attacks.


  1. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/01/01/cslea-and-ny-police-chief-mail-and-db-dumped-by-anonymous/


  2. http://www.databreaches.net/?p=22581


  3. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/01/01/ophiroshima-delivers-massive-dump-of-doxs-and-data/


  4. http://www.dodlive.mil/index.php/2011/12/aggressive-phishing-attack-targets-military/


  5. http://isc.sans.edu/diary.html?storyid=12304


  6. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/01/01/ministry-of-trade-republic-of-indonesia-hacked-and-dumped-by-cabincr3w/


  7. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/01/06/brazil-ministry-of-environment-hacked-by-anonymous-opamazonasave-1-0/


  8. http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/saudi-hackers-claim-to-post-personal-information-of-400-000-israelis-1.405147


  9. http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/01/03/fake-wendi-deng-murdoch-makes-mockery-of-twitter-verified-account-process/


  10. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/01/04/credit-rating-agencies-hacked-by-wallroad/


  11. http://anonops.blogspot.com/2012/01/opblitzkrieg.html


  12. http://thehackernews.com/2012/01/30-pakistan-government-sites-goes-down.html


  13. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/06/symantic-hack-source-code_n_1190673.html


  14. https://www.facebook.com/Symantec/posts/10150465997682876


  15. http://blogs.computerworld.com/19531/hacked_memo_leaked_apple_nokia_rim_supply_backdoors_for_govt_intercept


  16. http://www.forbes.com/sites/richardstiennon/2012/01/11/first-documented-case-of-cyber-espionage/


  17. http://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/19336-The-Lords-of-Dharmaraja-Faked-Indian-Govt-Memo.html


  18. http://ibnlive.in.com/news/fake-memo-but-real-code-indiaus-hacking-mystery-deepens/220239-11.html


  19. http://news.softpedia.com/news/ArcelorMittal-Hacked-by-Anonymous-Tons-of-Information-Leaked-244898.shtml


  20. http://blog.seculert.com/2012/01/ramnit-goes-social.html


  21. http://news.softpedia.com/news/The-Majority-of-Accounts-Stolen-by-Ramnit-Outdated-Facebook-Says-245196.shtml


  22. http://www.theage.com.au/business/cyber-attack-strands-etrade-customers-20120104-1pl3x.html


  23. http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/view/23046/pastebin-shut-down-twice-in-a-week-by-ddos-attacks/


  24. http://www.zdnetasia.com/singapores-nus-confirms-security-breach-62303396.htm


  25. http://edition.cnn.com/2012/01/06/us/stratfor-website/index.html


  26. http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2012/january/malware_010612/malware_010612


  27. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/01/06/sony-pictures-hacked-by-anonymous-opsony/


  28. http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2012/01/06/OSU-Medical-Center-server-hacked.html


  29. http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/UVic+theft+scores+banking+data+employees/5970030/story.html


  30. http://thehackernews.com/2012/01/ramgen-janelle-scandal-video-posted-on.html


  31. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/jan/08/hackers-expose-defence-intelligence-officials


  32. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/01/11/anonymous-attack-israeli-websites-in-light-of-opfreepalestine/


  33. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/01/10/101-sites-defaced-and-threats-of-data-leaks-by-zhc-in-operation-1m-vs-nato/


  34. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/01/15/game-hacked-and-accounts-leaked/


  35. http://datalossdb.org/incidents/5422-201-usernames-and-hashed-passwords-acquired-and-dumped-by-hacker


  36. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/01/08/big-list-of-accounts-and-defacement-from-various-hacked-sites/


  37. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/01/11/islamic-network-hacked-and-small-amount-of-accounts-dumped/


  38. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/01/11/futureexpert-co-uk-hacked-and-accounts-dumped/


  39. http://www.databreaches.net/?p=22776


  40. http://news.softpedia.com/news/Anonymous-Attacks-Finland-Anti-Piracy-Outfits-for-Ordering-TPB-Blockade-245609.shtml


  41. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/01/10/united-beauty-hacked-and-5000-accounts-dumped-by-p0keu/


  42. http://www.itworld.com/security/222033/fake-threat-against-facebook-dwarfs-anonymous-real-attacks-israel-finland-portugal


  43. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/01/11/expl0it-defaces-4-sites-for-ndaa/


  44. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/01/11/www-lemuse-info-leaked-with-full-exposure/


  45. http://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/19312-Phishing-Campaign-Using-Spoofed-US-CERT-Emails.html


  46. http://news.softpedia.com/news/South-Houston-SCADA-Systems-Protected-by-Three-Character-Passwords-235798.shtml


  47. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/01/11/dump-of-accounts-from-b-k-lighting/


  48. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/01/12/cancao-nova-hacked-and-accounts-dumped/


  49. http://news.softpedia.com/news/Online-Storage-and-File-Hosting-Site-FileDEN-Hacked-Users-Exposed-246059.shtml


  50. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16526067


  51. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/under-malware-attack-smart-cards-used-by-us-government-agencies/10049


  52. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/israeli-saudi-hackers-in-confusing-credit-card-publishing-war/2012/01/12/gIQA3QCFuP_blog.html

  53. http://www.databreaches.net/?p=22825


  54. http://pastebin.com/u/hannibal




  55. http://news.discovery.com/space/jaxa-virus-data-htv-computer-120113.html


  56. http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2012/01/13/operation-italy-takes-down-government-website.html


  57. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/01/12/MN4Q1MO9JK.DTL


  58. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/01/13/namesco_phish_like_security_warning/


  59. http://thehackernews.com/2012/01/self-claimed-hacker-ankit-fadia-hacked.html


  60. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/01/15/accounts-dumped-from-orion-si/


  61. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/01/16/t-mobile-hacked-and-accounts-leaked/


  62. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/01/14/asus-websites-hacked/

  63. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/01/16/nightmare-joins-0xomar-for-attacks-on-tel-aviv-stock-exchange-and-israel-airline/

  64. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/01/16/20000-facebooks-hacked-and-leaked-by-hannibal/

  65. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/01/16/david-morgan-hacked-24000-accounts-leaked-by-p0keu/

  66. http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/01/16/ashton-kutcher-foursquare-twitter-hack/

  67. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57359471-93/huffpos-twitter-account-hacked/

  68. http://pastebin.com/u/stk

  69. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/01/16/catalyst-gaming-hacked-and-2000-accounts-dumped/

  70. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/01/16/nigerian-armys-website-hacked-and-defaced-by-naijacyberhack/

  71. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/01/16/pakistan-horticulture-development-website-hacked-and-accounts-leaked-by-muldaria48/

  72. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/01/16/300-hacked-and-defaced-website-for-ops-freedom-palestine/
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