It’s time for the Cyber Attacks Timeline
for the first half of January 2014. I wish we had a better start for
this Infosec year. Not even a month has passed (actually this timeline
covers the first two weeks) and we have already seen several massive
breaches (Snapchat) and other resounding events, maybe less relevant
from a mere numeric perspective, but equally meaningful for the high
profile of the victims involved (Microsoft).
Besides Snapchat, other important
organizations have been targeted by Cyber crooks with very bad
consequences: World Poker Tour (175,333), Staysure (93,000 individuals
involved) and OpenSUSE (79,500 victims) are the most noticeable
examples. On the cyber crime front other meaningful events include a
wave of attacks against Video Games industries, and the hacking of Yahoo
advertise network, infecting, potentially 27,000 users per hour.
Hacktivists of the Syrian Electronic Army
are back with the result that even Microsoft is now part of the list of
their victims (however their web site was also hacked in the same
period). Other hacktivists very active in the same period include the
infamous RedHack collective.
Last but not least, the control room of
the Nuclear Plant of Monju in Japan was found infected with a malware
capable of allegedly exfiltrate 42,000 emails.
