January
- A Scam is created using an Indonesian Facebook app to steal Login information
- Scammers take advantage of the Serrana Flood in Brazil to take donations
February
- Anonymous hacks HBGary Federal (security firm)
- Android trojan released in unregulated Android Marketplaces
- 429 scams used to target unrest in Egypt and Libya
March
- US law enforcements and Microsoft take down the Rustock botnet
- The mobile threat Android.Rootcager appears on the official Android Market
- 419 scams take advantage of the Japanese Earthquake (fake donations sites and malicious attachments
- Hackers repackage Googles tool for removing the Android.Rootcager with a new Trojan; Anroid.Bgserv
- GlobalTrust.it, Comodo Registration Authorities and InstantSSL.it are hacked and fake certifications are created of Hotmail, Google, Yahoo!, Skype and Mozilla
April
- Iran discovers new virus dubbed “Stars”. It is believed to be similar to the previous Stuxnet-style attack
- Malware found registering into Facebook applications
- Spammers use the British Royal Wedding for campaigns and SEO poisoning
- Playstation Network was hacked. Sony shuts down the service while restoring security
- Court order is awarded to the FBI to shut down the Coreflood botnet with ‘delete’ command.
May- Phishing and malware attacks spiked due to Osama bin Laden’s death
- The hacking group LulzSec starts up with the slogan “in I for the LULZ”
- “tagging” spam campaign spreads across Facebook
- A free version of Blackhole exploit kit is leaked
June
- LulzSec hacks the cyber security consulting company Black & Berg and refuses the $10,000 offered as a price
- LulzSec hacks the US Senate, CIA, FBI affiliates in response to the US Government declaring that cyber-attacks could be perceived as an act of war
- LulzSec is attacked by TeaMp0isoN/th3j35t3r
- Operation AntiSec begins
- The Bitcoin virtual currency is hacked (currency exchange service)
- The certificate authority is hacked by DigiNotar which leads to end of the company
July
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- Microsoft offers a $250,000 reward for information which will lead to the arrest of the creators of Rustock
- Amy Winehouse’s death is used to spread Infostealer.Bancos (Trojan used to gather financial information)
August
- Phishing attacks are found with fake trust seals
September
- Spammers take advantage of the tenth anniversary of 9/11 in order to harvest email addresses
- Pharmaceutical spam exploits the Delhi bomb blast
- Microsoft shuts down the Kelihos botnet
October
- W32 is officially discovered. May also be the virus Iran found in April named “Stars”
- The Libyan leaders death leads to several spam campaigns spreading malware
- Attackers behind the Blackhole exploit kit start spam campaign based on Steve Jobs death
- The Microsoft Security Intelligence Report shows that Java is now the most exploited software
November
- Relatively Peaceful…
December
- The global affairs analysis company Stratfor is hacked
- Spam falls to the lowest levels in 3 years
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