Information Security Timelines

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.

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.

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.

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.

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%.

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%.

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.

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.

In the second timeline of December 2024, I collected 94 events with a threat landscape dominated by malware with…

In the first timeline of December 2024, I collected 115 events (7.67 events/day) with a threat landscape dominated…