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16-28 February 2025 Cyber Attacks Timeline

In the second timeline of February 2025, I collected 116 events (8.92 events/day) with a threat landscape dominated by malware with 29%, a value very close to 30% of the previous timeline, ahead of ransomware, back at number two with 21%, from 8% of the previous fortnight, and targeted attacks with 17%, very close to 16% of H1.

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- Post author:Paolo Passeri

- Post published:August 5, 2025

- Post category:Cyber Attacks Timelines / Security

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Last modified: August 5, 2025

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Motivations February H2 2025

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Attack Techniques February H2 2025

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Initial Access February H1 2025

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Sectors February H2 2025

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In the second timeline of February 2025, I collected 116 events (8.92 events/day) with a threat landscape dominated by malware with 29%, a value very close to 30% of the previous timeline, ahead of ransomware, back at number two with 21%, from 8% of the previous fortnight, and targeted attacks with 17%, very close to 16% of H1.

In terms of initial access techniques, phishing was still the preferred weapon with 15%, up from 12%, once again ahead of the exploitation of vulnerabilities in public-facing apps (10% up from 9%) and social engineering with 7%.

Cyber crime led the motivations chart with 68% up from 60%, as usual ahead of cyber espionage (19% down from 16%), and hacktivism with 5%.

Multiple organizations led the sectors chart with 17%, down from 22%, ahead of governments with13%, up from 9% and individuals with 10%.

Besides these trends, as always the timeline is rich of interesting events, such as mega breaches and attacks against organizations in the fintech space, so my final suggestion does not change: browse the timeline for the details of the events collected in this fortnight.

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1-15 February 2025 Cyber Attacks Timeline

In the first timeline of February 2025, I collected 115 events (7.67 events/day) with a threat landscape

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