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Tuesday, November 19, 2013

July 2013 Cyber Attacks Statistics

You will find a (hopefully) welcome novelty from this month: as a matter of fact starting from July I begun to record the nationality of the targeted companies (not the domains), so the corresponding data will be reported in the statistics accordingly.
Let us begin with the Daily Trend of Attacks chart. Here the Summer shows its effects showing a constantly decreasing shape after the peak occurred the 15th.
July 2013 Trend
And here it comes the innovation. Easy Predictable US (well above the others) and UK lead the Country Distribution Chart, but even Pakistan is not that bad! The other countries are aligned at approximately the same levels. US and UK collected together the 45% of the attacks reported in the timelines.
Country Jul 2013
Just like the previous month, Cyber Crime leads the Motivation Behind Attacks chart. The levels are similar to the ones of the previous month with a light drop from 62% in June to 57% in the current month. On the other hand, unlike the past years, this summer seems quite problematic for the hacktivists, also due to the recent sentencing.
Motivations Jul 2013
It is true, this July has brought many innovations, and for the first time Defacements lead the Distribution Of Attack Techniques Chart. Also the account Hijackings are becoming very popular. For the first time (as far as I remember) SQLi and DDoS are out from the first three ranks, even if there is a meaningful amount of attacks for which it has not been possible to derive the used technique based on the available information. Kindly remind that I take defacements into consideration only when they are meaningful, that is targeting Governmental primary domains or high profile targets, or also when they cause the leaking of data.
Attack Techniques
Last but not least, Governmental targets lead the Distribution of Target chart with 29%. Industry ranks at number two, quite close (only three points far). The two categories swapped their places in comparison with the previous month. It is also interesting to notice the third position of single individuals, a consequence of the multiple attacks against Twitter accounts.
Industry Jul 2013
As usual, please bear in mind that the sample must be taken very carefully since it refers only to discovered attacks included in my timelines. The sample does not pretend to be exhaustive but only aims to provide an high level overview of the “cyber landscape”.
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, 2012 and now 2013 (regularly updated). You may also want to have a look at the Cyber Attack Statistics, and follow @paulsparrows on Twitter for the latest updates.

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