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16-31 January 2013 Cyber Attacks Timeline
Two Weeks Living Dangerously! I have no other words to describe this second half of January (first two weeks here) that has shown an unprecedented level of attacks! And if a good day starts with the morning, this will be a very troubled year from an information security perspective.
Not only the peaks of DDoS attacks against the US Banks have reached an unstoppable peak, but, most of all, at the end of the month details have been unveiled about a massive cyber-espionage campaign allegedly orchestrated by Chinese hackers against some major US media including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and Bloomberg News.
A very very long list of targets this month, with some high profile victims such as the U.S. Sentencing Commission, whose web site has been hacked twice and turned into an Asteroid game, but also Renault Argentina that suffered 37,000 accounts leaked.
To summarize this month is really impossible, you just have to scroll down the timeline to realize the hacking spree in this January 2013.
If this trend continues, I will have to decrease the frequency of publication…
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 and the related statistics (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 timelines (and charts). To do so, you can use this form.
October 2012 Cyber Attacks Timeline
Click here for the first part covering the Cyber Attacks from 1 to 15 October 2012.
Here is the timeline for the main Cyber Attacks in October 2012. A month that has been characterized by hacktivism and also by several remarkable cyber crime operations.
For sure the next days will be hard for taxpayers of South Carolina, whose Department of Revenue has been targeted by foreign hackers able to access records of 3.6 million of individuals. But hard days are going to come also for banks: not only the trail of DDoS attack against U.S. Banks has continued even in the second half of the month (although different groups took credit for them), but also, on the cyber crime front, Citigroup has lost 1 million of bucks because of a loophole exploited by a ring of 13 individuals. Different motivations, same lesson: bank security needs a dramatic improvement.
Moving to hactkivism, nothing new under the sun. The pale sun of October has enlightened several operations targeting governments (Greece and Italy above all, to reflect the delicate situation of these two countries) and organization all over the world…
As usual after the jump you will find all the references.
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 and the related statistics (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 timelines (and charts).
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March 2012 Cyber Attacks Timeline (Part I)
The first half of March is gone, and here it is the Timeline of the main Cyber Attacks for this period, a timeline which shows, once again, a month characterized by Hacktivism, and in particular by cyber attacks carried on in retaliation for the arrests of the LulzSec members, among which, particularly meaningful, is the one perpetrated against a Security Firm: Panda Security.
As far as hacktivism is concerned, March has also seen the rise of a new hacking collective called The Consortium, who hacked Digital Playground, an adult porn site, acquiring 72,000 user accounts.
Other remarkable events include the attacks to several Vatican Websites, the theft of Michael Jackson’s catalogue from Sony, and the Cyber attack to British Pregnancy Advisory Service which allowed the alleged attacker, to illegally obtain 10,000 records.
Last but not least, James Stavridis, the NATO Admiral, has fallen indirect victim of a Social Poisoning Cyber Attack allegedly perpetrated by chinese hackers, as also BBC has fallen victim of a sophisticated Cyber Attacks from Iran.
The references are after the jump and, as always, the timeline does not include the events related to Middle East Cyberwar, object of a dedicated timeline.
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 @pausparrows on Twitter for the latest updates.
- http://www.thehackersnetwork.in/2012/03/mozilla-firefox-official-website-blog.html
- http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/03/01/redhackers-hack-police-net-and-ankara-police-directorate/
- http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57389119-83/antisec-dumps-monsanto-data-on-the-web/
- http://hackmageddon.com/2011/07/12/monsanto-hack-info-of-2500-employees-leaked/
- http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/03/04/electronics-giant-epson-hacked-and-data-leaked-by-anonymous-hacker-anonyintra/
- http://thehackernews.com/2012/03/siemens-and-canons-databases-exploited.html
- http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/02/17/chinese-cpu-maker-loongson-hacked-and-data-leaked-by-muldaria48/
- http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/03/02/mypakistan-com-pk-hacked-and-accounts-leaked-by-xdev-b4lc4nh4ck/
- http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/03/02/1400-steam-user-accounts-leaked/
- http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/03/04/panama-film-website-hacked-and-accounts-dumped-for-acta/
- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/02/linode_bitcoin_heist/
- http://datalossdb.org/incidents/5787-17-715-user-profiles-incl-names-usernames-e-mail-addresses-and-unencrypted-passwords-for-pvsonline-and-ip-marketplace-dumped-on-the-internet
- http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/03/05/1243235/github-hacked
- http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/308264/20120302/anonymous-hackers-religion-website-proxy-twitter.htm
- http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/03/04/republic-of-trinidad-and-tobago-ministry-of-finance-hacked-and-data-leaked/
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/mar/05/michael-jackson-back-catalogue-stolen?newsfeed=true
- http://thehackernews.com/2012/03/ddos-attack-on-limes-internet-system.html
- http://news.softpedia.com/news/Hackers-Hit-English-Defence-League-Site-Offline-256693.shtml
- http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/03/05/2700-saudi-based-accounts-leaked/
- http://datalossdb.org/incidents/5774-874-employers-and-job-seekers-e-mail-addresses-with-plaintext-passwords-dumped-on-the-internet
- http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/03/05/european-union-hacked-by-abluka-org/
- http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/03/12/digital-playground-passwords/
- http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/314162/20120314/anonymous-hackers-hacks-porn-conent-email-proxy.htm
- http://community.websense.com/blogs/securitylabs/archive/2012/03/05/mass-injection-of-wordpress-sites.aspx
- http://datalossdb.org/incidents/5789-admin-usernames-with-plaintext-passwords-as-well-as-250-e-mail-addresses-of-town-and-state-employees-and-contacts-some-with-postal-addresses-phone-numbers-and-or-plaintext-passwords-dumped-on-the-internet
- http://datalossdb.org/incidents/5790-30-names-e-mail-addresses-plaintext-passwords-and-telephone-numbers-dumped-on-the-internet
- http://news.softpedia.com/news/11-Romanian-Science-and-Research-Sites-Defaced-by-Anonymous-256564.shtml
- http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/anonymous-hacks-panda-security-in-response-to-lulzsec-arrests/10542
- https://www.facebook.com/PandaUSA/posts/10150581593176701
- http://news.softpedia.com/news/RedHack-Leaks-Data-from-Turkish-National-Police-256902.shtml
- http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/03/07/turkish-police-station-hacked-and-accounts-leaked/
- http://www.scmagazine.com.au/News/292592,allphones-hacked-staff-passwords-exposed.aspx
- http://www.montrealgazette.com/story_print.html?id=6262311&sponsor=
- http://anonops.blogspot.in/2012/03/anonymouss-last-actions-vatican-website.html
- http://datalossdb.org/incidents/5745-1-755-e-mail-addresses-and-plaintext-passwords-including-admin-accounts-dumped-on-the-internet
- http://www.anonnews.org/press/item/1386/
- http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/03/10/1135-credit-cards-hacked-by-aadil-rana-j0e-r00t/
- www.securelist.com/en/blog/676/Elections_2012_and_DDoS_attacks_in_Russia
- http://news.softpedia.com/news/TeaMp0isoN-Leaks-Data-from-UCLA-Wayne-and-Hampshire-County-Sites-257100.shtml
- http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/03/09/anonymous-hack-police-equipment-supplier-new-york-iron-works-for-fff/
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/11/abortion-website-hacker-caught
- http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/03/09/athenscountygovernment-com-hacked-by-anonymous-in-the-name-of-fff/
- http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/03/08/super-tuesday-malware-attack-targets-us-voters/
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/9130527/Europes-youngest-app-designer-expelled-after-hacking-school-computer-system.html
- http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/03/10/european-atomic-data-site-hacked-by-anonopsromania/
- http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/03/15/nepal-government-hacked-and-leaked-by-n4m3le55-crew-for-censorship/
- http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/chinese-spies-used-fake-facebook-profile-to-friend-nato-officials/10389
- http://anonops.blogspot.in/2012/03/anonymous-releases-symantec-source-code.html
- http://anonops.blogspot.in/2012/03/anonymous-hacks-vatican-web-site-again.html
- http://blog.sucuri.net/2012/03/web-hosting-provider-serverpro-hacked-defaced-blacklisted-by-google.html
- http://thehackernews.com/2012/03/pop-star-keha-twitter-hacked.html
- http://www.databreaches.net/?p=23616
- http://labs.alienvault.com/labs/index.php/2012/targeted-attacks-against-tibet-organizations/
- http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/03/14/islamic-nasheed-bank-hacked-2600-accounts-leaked-by-xdev-b4lc4nh4c/
- http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/03/15/chinese-websites-hacked-and-defaced-by-poltergeisth4cker-for-operation-free-christians/
- http://thehackernews.com/2012/03/tunisian-islamist-website-hacked-by.html
- https://twitter.com/search?q=%23OpVatican
- http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/03/14/us-iran-bbc-idUKBRE82D00820120314
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/14/assad-emails-lift-lid-inner-circle
- http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/security-threats/2012/03/15/dawn-raids-net-14-suspects-in-1m-phishing-theft-40095276/
- http://pastebin.com/u/Pr3dat0r
- http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/03/04/pentagon-mexican-presidents-and-universitys-hacked-by-yei-zeta/
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