List of cyber-attacks
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. A cyber-attack is any type of offensive maneuver employed by individuals or whole organizations that targets computer information systems, infrastructures, computer networks, and/or personal computer devices by various means of malicious acts usually originating from an anonymous source that either steals, alters, or destroys a specified target by hacking into a susceptible system.
This article contains a list of cyber-attacks.
Contents
Indiscriminate attacks
These attacks are wide-ranging, global and do not seem to discriminate among governments and companies
- Operation Shady RAT
- Stuxnet
- World of Hell
- Red October, discovered in 2012, was reportedly operating worldwide for up to five years prior to discovery, transmitting information ranging from diplomatic secrets to personal information, including from mobile devices.[1]
Destructive attacks
These attacks relate to inflicting damage on specific organizations
- Great Hacker War, and purported "gang war" in cyberspace
- LulzRaft, hacker group known for a low impact attack in Canada
- Operation Ababil, conducted against American financial institutions
- TV5Monde April 2015 cyberattack
- Vulcanbot
- Shamoon, a modular computer virus, was used in 2012 in an attack on 30,000 Saudi Aramco workstations, causing the company to spend a week restoring their services.[2][3]
- Wiper - in December 2011, the malware successfully erased information on hard disks at the Oil Ministry’s headquarters.[4][5]
Cyberwarfare
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These are politically motivated destructive attacks aimed at sabotage and espionage
- 2007 cyberattacks on Estonia, wide ranging attack targeting government and commercial institutions
- 2010 cyberattacks on Burma, related to the 2010 Burmese general election
- 2010 Japan–South Korea cyberwarfare
- 2013 Singapore cyberattacks, attack by Anonymous "in response to web censorship regulations in the country, specifically on news outlets"
- #OpIsrael, a broad "anti-Israel" attack
- Cyberattacks during the Russo-Georgian War
- July 2009 cyber attacks, against South Korea and United States
- Operation Olympic Games, against Iranian nuclear facilities, allegedly conducted by the United States
Government espionage
These attacks relate to stealing information from/about government organizations
- 2008 cyberattack on United States, cyber espionage targeting U.S. military computers
- Cyber attack during the Paris G20 Summit, targeting G20-related documents including financial information
- GhostNet
- Moonlight Maze
- Operation Newscaster, cyber espionage covert operation allegedly conducted by Iran
- Operation Cleaver, cyberwarfare covert operation allegedly conducted by Iran
- Shadow Network, attacks on India by China
- Titan Rain, targeting defense contractors in the United States
- Google - in 2009, the Chinese hackers breached Google's corporate servers gained access to a database containing classified information about suspected spies, agents, and terrorists under surveillance by the US government.[6]
- Gauss trojan, discovered in 2012 is a state-sponsored computer espionage operation that uses state-of-the-art software to extract a wealth of sensitive data from thousands of machines located mostly in the Middle East.[7]
- Office of Personnel Management data breach -- Dec 2014 breach of data on U.S. government employees
Corporate espionage
These attacks relate to stealing data from corporations related to proprietary methods or emerging products/services
- Operation Aurora
- Operation Socialist, UK obtaining information from Belgian telecom company on call information
- Sony Pictures Entertainment hack
Stolen e-mail addresses and login credentials
These attacks relate to stealing login information for specific web resources
- 2011 PlayStation Network outage, 2011 attack resulting in stolen credentials and incidentally causing network disruption
- Gawker - in 2010, a band of anonymous hackers has rooted the servers of the site and leaked half a gigabyte's worth of its private data.[8]
- IEEE - in September 2012, it exposed user names, plaintext passwords, and website activity for almost 100,000 of its members.[9]
- LivingSocial - in 2014 the company suffered a security breach that has exposed names, e-mail addresses and password data for up to 50 million of its users.[10]
- RockYou - in 2009, the company experienced a data breach resulting in the exposure of over 32 million user accounts.
- Yahoo! - in 2012, hackers posted login credentials for more than 453,000 user accounts.[11] Again in January 2013[12] and in January 2014[13]
Stolen credit card and financial data
- 2014 JPMorgan Chase data breach, allegedly conducted by a group of Russian hackers
- MasterCard - in 2005, the company announced that up to 40 million cardholders may have had account information stolen due to one of its payment processors being hacked.[14][15][16][17]
- VISA and MasterCard - in 2012, they warned card-issuing banks that a third-party payments processor suffered a security breach, affecting up to 10 million credit cards.[18][19]
- Subway - in 2012, two Romanian men admitted to participating in an international conspiracy that hacked into credit-card payment terminals at more than 150 Subway restaurant franchises and stole data for more than 146,000 accounts.[20]
- StarDust - in 2013, the botnet compromised 20,000 cards in active campaign hitting US merchants.[21]
- Target - in 2013, approximately 40 million credit and debit card accounts were impacted in a credit card breach.[22][23][24] According to another estimate, it compromised as many as 110 million Target customers.[25]
- Goodwill Industries - in September 2014, the company suffered from a credit card data breach that affected the charitable retailer’s stores in at least 21 states. Another two retailers were affected.[26][27]
- Home Depot - in September 2014, the cybercriminals that compromised Home Depot's network and installed malware on the home-supply company's point-of-sale systems likely stole information on 56 million payment cards.[28]
- By May, three healthcare payer organizations had been attacked in the United States in 2014 and 2015: Anthem, Premera Blue Cross and CareFirst. The three attacks together netted information on more than 91 million people.[29]
Hacktivism
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References
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