September 19, 2022 - In January 2022, hackers carried out an attack on servers hosting the personal information of more than 500,000 people receiving services from the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.

September 25, 2024 - It would be tempting to conclude ... most common attack vector remains credential theft (19%) then phishing (16%), misconfigured cloud (15%) and vulnerabilities in third-party software (13%)....

January 5, 2023 - Top 3 most attacked industries in 2022 were Education/Research, Government and Healthcare · Geography of Africa experienced the highest volume of attacks with 1875 weekly attacks per organization, followed by APAC with 1691 weekly attacks per ...

2 weeks ago - The campaign started in March 2022 when hackers exploited vulnerabilities in Microsoft Outlook to target the party’s executive committee, as well as German defense and aerospace companies. April 2024: Ukraine’s military intelligence agency launch a cyberattack against Russia’s ruling United Russia party the same day Russia hosted its Victory Dictation. Attackers ...

Also tracked as SwimSnake, The Great Thief of Valley (or Valley Thief), UTG-Q-1000, and Void Arachne, Silver Fox is the name assigned to an aggressive cybercrime group from China that has been active since 2022.

November 28, 2025 - In 2022, around 480,000 incidents of cyberattacks were reported in the United States. The figure has gradually increased since 2016, when approximately 250,000 cyberattacks were registered nationwide.

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October 12, 2022 - The rise — partly due to Log4j — helped boost cyberattack attempts to an all-time high in Q4 2021, new data shows. The education/research sector sustained the most attacks in 2021, followed by government/military and communications. Source: Check Point Software ... While many large businesses suffered breaches, small and medium businesses were an easier target for hackers because of their lack of resources and security expertise. 2022 Must-Know Cyber Attack Statistics and Trends 2021 Must-Know Cyber Attack Statistics and Trends - Embroker

This joint advisory provides technical ... business disruption from ransomware attacks. ... Recently, threat actors successfully launched a cyberattack against an organization using a new ransomware variant, which CISA refers to as FiveHands....

October 13, 2025 - LAUSD Ransomware Attack: Los Angeles ... in 2022, disrupting education services to thousands of students. Many online learning platforms and administrative systems were attacked, and so there were significant delays in the process.

Since the main question is not “if” but “when?” let’s dig deep retrospectively into the most attention-grabbing and interesting cyber attacks businesses have faced this year. ... The year 2022 started with big news about a data breach that affected Red Cross data on highly vulnerable people’s profiles.

1 week ago - With an average of 2200 daily attacks or 1 attack every 39 seconds, the burgeoning $8 trillion cybercrime industry hardly comes as a surprise. But beyond the sheer financial and reputational losses lies a chilling reality: no entity—not even governments-is immune to this growing headache. The Costa Rican nation, for instance, was in a state of emergency for almost the entirety of 2022 and 2023, due to recurring cyberattacks that crippled its critical infrastructure.

A DDoS attack in July 2022 blocked access to the website of the Lithuanian energy company, Ignitis Group. The company managed the attack and limited the damage using DDoS Protection.

November 10, 2025 - IT giant Cisco was hacked by the Yanluowang Ransomware gang on May 24, 2022. The attackers accessed a Cisco employee’s personal Google account that stored their Cisco credentials.

Optus Telecommunications, an Australian telecom company was hit with a huge data breach in 2022. Hackers were able to access PII on 40% of the Australian population, a figure rising above 10M.

3 weeks ago - Most of the sites were restored within hours of the attack. On 15 February, another cyberattack took down multiple government and bank services. On 24 February, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Western intelligence officials believed that this would be accompanied by a major cyberattack against Ukrainian infrastructure, but this threat did not materialize.

1 week ago - Seven sources tell CyberScoop that a lack of coordination and miscommunication between federal agencies and the telecommunications industry left critical networks exposed to the Chinese hacking group. ... Ianis Aleksandrovich Antropenko allegedly committed ransomware attacks from 2018 to 2022.

4. Toyota: Between February and March 2022, three Toyota suppliers were hacked, showing us that no matter how secure your organisation may be, a determined threat actor can and will find a way to break in.

April 5, 2023 - Octa, Magento and AccessPress were some companies that fell victim to supply chain attacks in 2022. A supply chain attack is a form of cyberattack where hackers target a trusted third-party vendor, presumably the weakest link in the supply chain, ...

April 22, 2025 - Qilin, active since 2022, is known for targeting large organizations and has recently allied with LockBit and DragonForce. The Habib Bank attack adds to a series of major financial breaches this year, showing the growing threat ransomware poses to global banking institutions. (Cybernews)