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September 2012 Cyber Attacks Statistics
It’s time for the statistics derived from the Cyber Attacks Timeline of September 2012 (Part I and Part II).
I have decided to add another chart reporting the Daily Trend for the Cyber Attacks. According to collected data, the first week of the month has shown the higher concentration of events.
The Motivations Behind Attacks chart reveals the predominance of Cyber Crime which ranked, in September, at number one with the 55% of occurrences, followed by Cyber Crime, at number two with the 42% of occurrences. This is in contrast with the result of the previous month, in which the ranks were pratically inversed (respectively 58% Hacktivism and 36% Cyber Crime).
The Distribution Of Attack Techniques Chart confirms the predominance of SQL Injection over Distributed Denial Of Service. Interesting to notice the position of Targeted Attacks at the fifth place with the 5% of occurrences (I wonder how many will go undetected). Of course the main purpose of Targeted Attacks is to remain undetected for long time. Is the fact that they appear in the chart a sign of increasing detection capabilities by technological and human countermeasures?
Last but not least, the Distributon Of Targets Chart confirms the preference of Cyber Crooks against Government targets which rank at number one with the 23.6 of occurrences. Industry targets rank at number two with nearly 15% of occurrences, immediately before targets belonging to various organizations which rank at the third place with 12.2% of occurrences. Targets belonging to finance rank at number four with the 9% of occurrences, mainly due to the wave of DDoS Cyber attacks against U.S. Banks.
Again, I will never get tired of repeating that data must be taken very carefully since they do refer 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 “cyber landscape” of the considered period.
In any case, 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), at the Cyber Attack Statistics, 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).
Related articles
- August 2012 Cyber Attacks Statistics (hackmageddon.com)
- July 2012 Cyber Attacks Statistics (hackmageddon.com)
1-15 September Cyber Attacks Statistics
I know, September is nearly gone, but it is the time for the cyber stats related to the first half of September. As you know, they are derived from my Cyber Attack Timeline.
A look at the Motivations Behind Attacks chart, shows that apparently the Sun of August is the best period for hacktivism, since September has shown the overtake of Cyber Crime motivated attacks which reported the 56% of occurrences inside the analyzed sample.
The Distribution Of Attack Techniques confirms the domain od SQL Injection with nearly the 50% of the attacks. The fall of DDoS in this unwelcome charts is attributable to the minor number of attacks Motivated by Hacktivism
After all, apparently the Governments keep on investing an inadequate amount of money for securing their infrastructure: in fact they continue to lead the Distribution of Targets chart with the 30% of occurrences, nearly twice than the industry sector which ranks at number two with the 16%. Among the single targets (in fact the sectors od industries and organizations are higly fragmented) the edcuational institutions are the most targeted afer governments. Online activities (miscellaneous services, online games, online gambling and e-commerce sites), summed together reach the considerable number of 14%.
As usual, I will never get tired of repeating that data must be taken very carefully since they do refer 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 “cyber landscape” of the considered period.
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 @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).
Related articles
- August 2012 Cyber Attacks Statistics (hackmageddon.com)
- July 2012 Cyber Attacks Statistics (hackmageddon.com)
1-15 September 2012 Cyber Attacks Timeline
Here it is the usual compilation for the Cyber Attacks in the first half of September, a period which has apparently confirmed the revamping of hacktivism seen in August.
Several operations such as #OpFreeAssange (in support of Julian Assange), #OpTPB2 against the arrest of The Pirate Bay Co-Founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, and #OpIndipendencia in Mexico have characterized the first half of September. Curiously the hacktivists have also characterized this period for a couple of controversial events: the alleged leak of 1 million of UDIDs from FBI (later proven to be fake) and the alleged attack to GoDaddy (later proven to be a network issue, that is the reason why I not even mentioned it in this timeline). Other actions motivated by hacktivists have been carried on by Pro-Syrian hackers.
From a Cyber Crime perspective, there are two events particularly interesting (even if well different): the alleged leak of Mitt Romney’s tax returns and yet another breach against a Bitcoin Exchange (Bitfloor), worthing the equivalent of 250,000 USD which forced the operator to suspend the operations.
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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