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#### 2018: A Year of Cyber Attacks

 [January 15, 2019](https://www.hackmageddon.com/2019/01/15/2018-a-year-of-cyber-attacks/)  [Paolo Passeri](https://www.hackmageddon.com/author/paulsparrows/)  1 Comment  [2017, 2018, Cyber Attacks, Cyber](https://www.hackmageddon.com/tag/2017/)
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 Finally I can summarize all the events and statistics collected in 2018, quite

 a complicated year from an infosec perspective. For those of you that keep

 asking, every two weeks (more or less) I publish a timeline with the main

 cyber attacks occurred in that period. Every timeline contains the link with

 the details of the events, and �nally, every month (more or less), the

 timelines are aggregated to provide a statistical overview of the period.

 Moreover, the taxonomy of the categories is inherited from the

 International Standard Industrial Classi�cation

 So during 2018, I have collected a total of 1337 events that you can �nd in

 the following table (and after the table you will �nd the statistics):

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|01/10/ 2018|?|Apollo|Apollo, a sales engagement startup boasting a database of more than 200 million contact records, is hacked and sends an email to its affected customers.|Unknow n|S Other service activities|Cybe r Crim e|US|Link (http s://te chcru nch.c om/2 018/ 10/0 1/ap ollo­ conta cts­ data­ breac h/)|||
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|01/10/ 2018|Roamin g Mantis|iOS Users|Kaspersky discover that the Roaming Mantis group is testing a new monetization scheme by redirecting iOS users to pages that contain the Coinhive in­browser mining script rather than the normal Apple phishing page.|Maliciou s Script Injectio n|X Individual|Cybe r Crim e|>1|Link (http s://s ecure list.c om/r oami ng­ manti s­ part­ 3/88 071/)|||
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|02/10/ 2018|Hidden Cobra AKA Lazarus Group|US Banks|A joint technical alert from the DHS, the FBI, and the Treasury warns about a new ATM cash­out scheme, dubbed “FASTCash,” used by the Hidden Cobra APT.|Malware /PoS Malware|K Financial and insurance activities|Cybe r Crim e|US|Link (http s://s ecurit yaffai rs.co/ word press /767 98/h ackin g/fas tcash ­ hidde n­ cobra ­ attac ks.ht ml)|||
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|02/10/ 2018|?|Individual s in the US|Researchers from ProofPoint discover a new DanaBot campaign spread through Malspam campaign installing the Hancitor malware.|Malware /PoS Malware|X Individual|Cybe r Crim e|US|Link (http s://w ww.p roofp oint.c om/u s/thr eat­ insig ht/po st/da nabot ­ gains ­ popul arity­ and­ targe ts­ us­ organ izatio ns­ large ­ camp aigns )|||
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|02/10/ 2018|?|City of Regina|A city of Regina email is hacked, and used as a phishing tool to try and get passwords and emails from other city of Regina staff as well as external groups.|Account Hijackin g|O Public administr ation, defence, compulso ry social security|Cybe r Crim e|CA|Link (http s://gl obaln ews.c a/ne ws/4 5213 46/ci ty­of­ regin a­ email ­ hack ed­ exper ts­ warn ­ citys­ websi te­ unsaf e­as­ well/)|||
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|02/10/ 2018|?|WhatsAp p Users in Israel|A wave of reports about hijacked WhatsApp accounts in Israel has forced the government's cyber­security agency to send out a nation­ wide security alert.|Account Hijackin g|X Individual|Cybe r Crim e|IL|Link (http s://w ww.z dnet. com/ articl e/rec ent­ wave ­of­ hijac ked­ what sapp­ accou nts­ trace d­ back­ to­ voice mail­ hacki ng/)|||
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###### Now, let’s have a closer look at the statistics derived from the mega

 timeline of 2018. The �rst chart compares the total events in 2017 and

 2018 on a monthly basis. Clearly, with the sole exception of August, the

 level of activity has been constantly higher in 2018.


###### Monthly Attacks (2017 vs 2018)


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###### Daily Events Per Category (2017 vs 2018)

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Cyber Crime (2017) Cyber Crime (2018)

Cyber Espionage (2017) Cyber Espionage (2018)


Cyber Warfare (2017) Cyber Warfare (2018)


Hacktivism (2017) Hacktivism (2018)

###### The following charts compare the distribution of motivations between

 2017 and 2018: as expected also in 2018 cyber crime leads the chart with

 an increase of nearly 5 points in comparison to 2017. All the other

 motivations (cyber espionage, hacktivism and cyber warfare) has


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###### Motivations (2017): 951
 Events


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###### Motivations (2018): 1337
 Events

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###### Monthly Distribution
 Motivations
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###### Monthly Distribution
 Motivations
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###### Malware (and I would add unsurprisingly) leads the chart of the Top 10

 Attack Techniques:


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Account Hijacking: 18.2%
Unknown: 16.0%

Targeted Attack: 13.0%


Malware/PoS Malware: 34.4%


Vulnerability: 6.4%

Malicious Script Injection: 3.2%

DDoS: 3.2%

Defacement: 2.3%

Brute­Force/Credential Stuffing: 1.3%

SQLi: 0.8%

Social Network Bots: 0.8%

51% attack: 0.4%


Malware/PoS Malware 441 Account Hijacking 233

Unknown 205 Targeted Attack 167

Vulnerability 82 Malicious Script Injection 41

DDoS 41 Defacement 29

Brute­Force/Credential Stuffing 17 SQLi 10

Social Network Bots 10 51% attack 5


###### While individuals are still the preferred targets for cyber criminals:


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Multiple Industries: 15.6%
Information, communication: 5.5%
Arts entertainment, recreation: 3.9%


Wholesale, retail trade: 2.5%

Accommodation, food services: 2.3%

Other services: 2.3%

Transportation, Storage: 1.9%

Manufacturing: 1.8%

Electricity, gas steam, air
conditioning supply: 1.3%

Professional scientific, technical: 1.2%

Extraterritorial organizations and
bodies: 0.9%

Administrative and support services:
Individuals 301

Multiple Industries 208

Public administration, defence, social security 167

Human health, social work 124

Financial and insurance 83

Education 74

Information, communication 73

Arts entertainment, recreation 52

Fintech 44

Wholesale, retail trade 34

Accommodation, food services 31

Other services 31

Transportation, Storage 26

Manufacturing 24

Electricity, gas steam, air conditioning supply 17

Professional scientific, technical 16

Extraterritorial organizations and bodies 12

Administrative and support services 12

Water supply, sewerage waste management 4

Unknown 3

Real estate 1


###### The following chart shows the breakdown of motivations for each target

 sector. Please notice the in�uence of cyber crime for the healthcare sector.


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Individuals

Multiple Industries
Public administration, defence, social security

Human health, social work

Financial, insurance

Education

Information, communication
Arts entertainment, recreation

Fintech
Wholesale, retail trade

Accommodation, food service

Other services
Transportation, storage

Manufacturing
Electricity, gas steam, air conditioning

Professional scientific, technical
Administrative and support service

Extraterritorial organizations and bodies
Water supply, sewerage waste management

Unknown

Real estate

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Cyber Crime

Cyber Espionage

Hacktivism

Cyber Warfare

###### And I think that for 2018 is pretty much everything. Feel free to share the

 links and use the data (for personal purposes) as needed. Also remember

 that this is only the tip of the iceberg, and obviously my stats can’t be

 comprehensive. My humble mission is just to rise the awareness and keep

 the level of attention on the cyber threats constantly high.


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