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2022 Ukraine cyberattacks. During the prelude to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, multiple cyberattacks against Ukraine were recorded, as well as some attacks on Russia. The first major cyberattack took place on 14 January 2022, and took down more than a dozen of Ukraine's government websites. [1]
British Library cyberattack. In October 2023, Rhysida, a hacker group, attacked the online information systems of the British Library. They demanded a ransom of 20 bitcoin, at the time around £ 596,000, to restore services and return the stolen data. When the British Library did not acquiesce to the attempt, Rhysida publicly released ...
In the first six months of 2017, two billion data records were stolen or impacted by cyber attacks, and ransomware payments reached US$2 billion, double that in 2016. [6] In 2020, with the increase of remote work as an effect of the COVID-19 global pandemic, cybersecurity statistics reveal a huge increase in hacked and breached data. [7]
The number of attacks has grown yearly: 45 in 1999, 133 in 2000, 275 by the end of August 2001. [9] In 2010, Indian hackers laid a cyber attack at least 36 government database websites going by the name "Indian Cyber Army". [10] In 2013, Indian hackers hacked the official website of Election Commission of Pakistan in an attempt to retrieve ...
2012 Operation Ababil, a series of cyber attacks starting in 2012, targeting various American financial institutions and carried out by a group calling itself the Cyber fighters of Izz Ad-Din Al Qassam. 2013 Singapore cyberattacks, attack by Anonymous "in response to web censorship regulations in the country, specifically on news outlets"
Harry Stedman, PA. November 2, 2024 at 10:03 AM. A city council website has been taken offline after being targeted in a cyber attack, with other local authorities confirming they were previously ...
Operation Russia. On February 25, 2022, Twitter accounts associated with Anonymous declared that they had launched a 'cyber operation' against the Russian Federation, in retaliation for the invasion of Ukraine ordered by Russian president Vladimir Putin. The operation was dubbed "OpRussia".
2022 DDoS attacks on Romania. Beginning at 04:05 EEST on 29 April 2022, a series of multiple denial-of-service attack (DDoS) attacks were launched against several Romanian government, military, bank and mass media websites. Behind the attacks was the pro- Kremlin hacking group Killnet, who resorted to this in response to a declaration made by ...