June 2012 Cyber Attacks Timeline (Part II)

Part I (1-15 June) at this link

From an information security perspective, the second half of June has been characterized by the hacking collective UGNAZI (and its members) and also by an individual hacker: .c0mrade AKA @OfficialComrade.

Both entities have left behind them a long trail of Cyber Attacks against different targets (in several cases the real extent of the attack is uncertain) and with different techniques, although it is likely that the UGNAZI collective will be forced to change the plans after the arrest of the group’s leader, JoshTheGod, nearly at the end of the month (27^thof June), effectively they have considerably reduced the rate of their cyber attacks in the second part of the analyzed period.

On the other hand, hospitals, banks, several major airlines are only few examples of the preys fallen under the attacks carried on by .c0mrade. Plese notce that from  Cyber Crime perspective,  is also interesting to notice the High Roller Operation, a giant fraud against the banking industry, unmasked by McAfee.

Needless to say, the Cyber War front is always hot, most of all in Middle East, were several DDoS attacks targeted some Israeli institutions and, most of all, an alleged unspecified massive Cyber Attack targeted tje Islamic Republic of Iran.

The hacktitic landscape is completely different: maybe hacktivists have chosen to go on vacation since June 2012 has apparently shown a decreasing trend, in sharp contrast with an year ago, when the information security community lived one of its most troubled periods.

If you want to have an idea of how fragile our data are inside the cyberspace, have a look at the timelines of the main Cyber Attacks in 2011 and 2012 (regularly updated), and follow @paulsparrows on Twitter for the latest updates.

Also, feel free to submit remarkable incidents that in your opinion deserve to be included in the timeline.

1. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/06/15/bosniaks-net-postaplus-com-sy-hacked-1400-accounts-leaked-by-anonymous-australia/
2. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/06/15/c0mrade-claims-exploits-on-major-airline-systems/
3. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/06/15/directv-hacked-data-and-accounts-leaked-by-teamintricate/
4. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57456330-83/hackers-grab-customer-data-demand-cash-from-payday-lender/
5. http://news.softpedia.com/news/UGNazi-Claims-to-Have-Gained-Access-to-Google-s-MarkMonitor-Account-275789.shtml
6. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/06/16/polish-military-medical-center-hacked-all-databases-and-users-personal-details-leaked-by-bzyklon/
7. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/06/16/bolivian-sites-hacked-accounts-leaked-by-anonymous-australia/
8. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/06/17/six-flags-entertainment-corporation-hacked-by-ug-ugnazi/
9. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/06/17/hospital-management-systems-breached-by-officialcomrade-c0mrade/
10. ttp://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/06/18/cobank-citibank-internal-access-by-c0mrade/
11. http://www.datalossdb.org/incidents/6709-948-usernames-first-names-email-addresses-and-passwords-dumped-on-the-internet
12. http://news.softpedia.com/news/Twitter-Account-of-Hopsin-Taken-Over-in-CISPA-Protest-270390.shtml
13. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/06/19/comcast-hacked-data-leaked-by-zer0pwn/
14. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/06/20/c0mrade-warns-of-massive-exploits-across-many-sectors-that-expose-millions-of-people/
15. http://news.softpedia.com/news/CyberZeist-Claims-to-Have-Gained-Access-to-Hundreds-of-Federal-Accounts-276384.shtml
16. http://www.algemeiner.com/2012/06/21/iranian-central-bank-hit-with-cyber-attack/
17. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/06/19/hex00010-turns-tables-and-makes-threats-to-start-releasing-scada-exploits/
18. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/06/21/fiamma-tricolore-hacked-5000-emails-leaked-by-anonymous-for-opblitzkrieg/
19. http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/06/20/aeronautical-state-sponsored-exploit/
20. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/06/21/school-of-bhagavad-gita-hacked-by-anonteenusa/
21. http://www.algemeiner.com/2012/06/20/israeli-government-sites-crash-day-after-report-on-flame-virus/
22. http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/21/us-iran-cyber-nuclear-idUSBRE85K1EA20120621
23. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/twitter/9347991/Hackers-claim-responsibility-for-Twitter-outage.html
24. http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/view/26504/twitter-tangodown-by-ugnazi-or-cascading-bug-by-twitter/
25. http://blog.eset.com/2012/06/21/acadmedre-10000s-of-autocad-files-leaked-in-suspected-industrial-espionage
26. http://thehackernews.com/2012/06/scamming-site-taken-down-by-hackers.html
27. http://news.softpedia.com/news/TheWikiBoat-Targets-Sites-of-KKK-American-Nazi-Party-and-Glencore-277071.shtml
28. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/06/22/cashier-systems-exploited-by-c0mrade/
29. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/06/22/uks-biggest-private-security-company-g4s-hacked-data-leaked-by-le4ky/
30. http://thehackernews.com/2012/06/anonymous-hackers-shut-down-website-of.html
31. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/06/23/dispatch-radio-for-busesground-vehicles-exploited-by-c0mrade/
32. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/06/23/host-gator-hacked-data-leaked-by-digital-corruption/
33. http://news.softpedia.com/news/Hacker-Highlights-Flaws-in-New-York-City-Radio-Systems-and-Kuwait-Banking-277314.shtml
34. http://thehackernews.com/2012/06/department-of-homeland-security-and-us.html
35. https://twitter.com/#!/Anonymous_Co/status/216577734619570176
36. http://www.mcafee.com/us/resources/reports/rp-operation-high-roller.pdf?cid=WBB059
37. http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/06/25/techradar-latest-site-to-have-usernames-and-passwords-stolen/
38. http://news.softpedia.com/news/Team-Digi7al-Leaks-Data-from-San-Jose-State-University-Stanford-Others-277614.shtml
39. http://www.identityfinder.com/blog/post/San-Jose-State-University-Student-Government-Hacked-10000-Student-SSNs-Exposed-Online.aspx
40. http://news.softpedia.com/news/Hacker-Leaks-80-000-Email-Addresses-and-Passwords-from-Telecoms-Networks-277629.shtml
41. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/06/27/oil-giant-exxon-mobil-hacked-data-leaked-by-le4ky/
42. http://pastebin.com/hyvHRusL
43. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/06/27/blackmarket-credit-card-selling-website-hacked-exposed-by-hex000101/
44. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/06/28/panda-security-hacked-data-leaked-by-lulzsecmx/
45. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57462403-83/latest-hacker-dump-looks-like-comcast-at-t-data/
46. http://thehackernews.com/2012/06/anonymous-hacks-japanese-government.html
47. http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-57464170-263/new-os-x-tibet-malware-variant-surfaces
48. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/06/30/bangkok-cell-towers-exploited-by-c0mrade/
49. http://news.softpedia.com/news/Anonymous-Hackers-Leak-Data-from-United-Arab-Emirates-Netfilter-Servers-278274.shtml

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