Cyber incidents worldwide 2022

In 2022, numerous significant cyber attacks were detected worldwide. The first significant cyber attack was on January 6th, when the attacker launched a new custom remote access trojan (RAT) that affected Windows, MacOS, and Linux systems. Before the Russia-Ukraine war started in late February, Russian state-sponsored threat groups targeted critical infrastructure in the United States. This was followed by a hack on the Belarussian railway. The end of January was marked by the attack of the German oil storage company being hit with ransomware. The tensions across industry sectors worldwide remained escalated throughout the whole time of the research. The year ended with ransomware attacks on hospital networks in France and Colombian energy company Empresas Públicas de Medellín (EPM).

Significant cyber incidents worldwide in 2022

Date of the incident	Name of the incident
Jan 6	SysJoker remote access trojan affects Windows, MacOS and Linux
Jan 11	Russian State-Sponsored Cyber Threats to U.S. Critical Infrastructure
Jan 25	Hacktivist attack on Belarus railway
Feb 1	Oiltanking GmbH Group hit with ransomware attack
Feb 23	Nvidia: largest microchip manufacturer in the U.S. hit with ransomware attack
Feb 24	Viasat cyberattack causes malfunction of 5,800 wind turbines in Germany and disruption across Europe
Feb 28	Toyota halts operations due to cyberattack at one of its suppliers
Mar 9	Samsung data breach
Mar 23	Microsoft data breach
Mar 31	Cyberattack causes shutdown at wind turbine manufacturer Nordex
Apr 12	Ukraine’s power grid hit with Industroyer2
Apr 13	Incontroller: Nation-state threat actor tool that targets Industrial Control Systems (ICS)
Apr 20	Russian State-Sponsored Cyber Threats to Critical Infrastructure
May 24	Port of London Authority (PLA) hit with cyberattack
June 27	Killnet launched cyber attack on Lithuania
June 27 (2)	Several Iranian steel companies attacked by wiper malware
June 29	Norway hit with cyber attack
July 5	DTEK Group hacked by Russian threat actors
Aug 9	Cyber attack on BRP Manufacturing
Aug 16	Website of Ukrainian nuclear power company Energoatom hit by Russian threat actors
Aug 29	Cyber attack on Italian energy company GSE
Aug 31	Computer networks of Italian oil company Eni hit with a cyberattack
Sep 19	Several publicly accessible PLCs linked to various water systems hacked
Oct 10	Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on several U.S. airport websites
Oct 10 (2)	Cyberattack at CommonSpirit Health firm results in surgery delays across the U.S.
Oct 25	Indian power company Tata Power suffers cyberattack and data leak
Nov 4	Cyberattack on a third-party IT provider halts trains in Denmark
Nov 10	Ransomware attack on Transportation technology company Continental
Dec 5	Ransomware attack shuts down hospital operations in France
Dec 16	Ransomware hits Colombian energy company Empresas Públicas de Medellín (EPM)