16-30 April 1017 Cyber Attacks Timeline

Here’s the second timeline of April (first part here) covering the main cyber attacks occurred between 16 and 30 April 2017.

Complete timeline here: https://www.hackmageddon.com/2017/06/05/16-30-april-2017-cyber-attacks-timeline/

Quite a busy fortnight this one: once again the infamous APT28 (AKA Fancy Bear) doesn’t really feel like getting some rest. This fortnight the list of its victims includes: the Danish Armed Forces, two German think tanks with ties to the Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party Christian Democratic Union (CDU), and also the newly elected French President Emmanuel Macron.

In the same time, while Google and Facebook have confirmed that they fell victim to an alleged $100m (￡77m) scam between 2013 and 2015. a couple of mega breaches have joined the list: Fashion Fantasy Game and, for the second time, R2Games (more than one million accounts compromised this time); and yet another Bitcoin Exchange service, Yapizon, has suffered a massive theft (about 3,800 bitcoins corresponding to $5M).

Despite smaller in size, other two breaches are worthy to mention as they hit two high-profile targets like HipChat and Chipotle.

Last but not least, another interested trend is the increasingly common discovery of massive mobile malware infections: this fortnight two similar campaigns have been discovered: MilkyDoor and FalseGuide.

If you want to have an idea of how fragile our electronic identity is inside the cyberspace, have a look at the timelines of the main Cyber Attacks in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 (regularly updated). You may also want to have a look at the Cyber Attack Statistics that are regularly published, and follow @paulsparrows on Twitter for the latest updates.

Additionally, feel free to submit remarkable incidents that in your opinion deserve to be included in the timelines (and charts), and if useful, you can access the timeline in Google Sheet format.