The exploitation of vulnerabilities targeting remote access technologies to gain initial access is continuing relentlessly also during 2025, with initial access brokers, and in general opportunistic and targeted threat actors, quite active in leveraging software flaws to break into organizations.| HACKMAGEDDON
In the first timeline of March 2025, I collected 127 events with a threat landscape dominated by malware and ransomware...| HACKMAGEDDON
After the cyber attacks timelines, it’s time to publish the statistics for February 2025 where I collected and analyzed 231 events. In February 2025, Cyber Crime continued to lead the Motivations chart with 64% down from 75%, of February. Operations driven by Cyber Espionage ranked at number two with 20%, an important increase from 12% and once again ahead of Hacktivism slightly down to 3% from 4%. Only a single event was attributed to Cyber Warfare that closes the chart.| HACKMAGEDDON
In the second timeline of February 2025, I collected 116 events (8.92 events/day) with a threat landscape dominated by malware with 29%, a value very close to 30% of the previous timeline, ahead of ransomware, back at number two with 21%, from 8% of the previous fortnight, and targeted attacks with 17%, very close to 16% of H1.| HACKMAGEDDON
In the first timeline of February 2025, I collected 115 events (7.67 events/day) with a threat landscape dominated by malware with 30%, the same value of the previous timeline.| HACKMAGEDDON
After the cyber attacks timelines, it’s time to publish the statistics for January 2025 where I collected and analyzed 216 events.In January 2025, Cyber Crime continued to lead the Motivations chart.| HACKMAGEDDON
In the second timeline of January 2025, I collected 107 events with a threat landscape dominated by malware with 30%, up from 18% of the previous timeline, and very close to the values of December 2024, ahead of ransomware with 19%.| HACKMAGEDDON
In the first timeline of January 2025, I collected 109 events with a threat landscape dominated by malware with 18%, down from 33% of the previous timeline, and once again ahead of account takeovers with 17% (it was 20% in the previous timeline), and ransomware with 14%.| HACKMAGEDDON
I aggregated the statistics created from the cyber attacks timelines published in Q4 2024. In this period, I collected a total of 694 events dominated by Cyber Crime with 70%, slightly up from 65.5% of Q3.| HACKMAGEDDON
After the cyber attacks timelines, it’s time to publish the statistics for December 2024 where I collected and analyzed 209 events primarily driven by Cyber Crime.| HACKMAGEDDON
MEGA BREACHES TRACKED IN 2024 0 RECORDS LEAKED IN 2023 0 B EVENTS RECORDED IN 2024 0 MEGA BREACHES TRACKED IN 2024 0 RECORDS LEAKED IN 2024 0 B EVENTS RECORDED IN 2024 0| HACKMAGEDDON
It's time to aggregate the data collected from the Cyber Attacks Timelines of June (part I and part II) into statistics. Nothing new under the July sun, for what concerns the Country Distribution, which is steadily dominated by the US in…| HACKMAGEDDON
