After the cyber attacks timelines (part I and part II), it’s time to publish the statistics for January 2026 where I collected and analyzed 178 events. In January 2026, Cyber Crime continued to lead the Motivations chart with 76%, ahead of Cyber Espionage at number two with 19%, and Cyber Warfare with just three events.

After the first timeline of January 2026, it’s time to publish the list of the main cyber attacks occurred in the second half of the month, between 16 and 31 January 2026.

And I am back with the 1-15 January 2026 cyber attacks timeline. In the first timeline of January 2026, I collected 61 events (4.07 events/day) with a threat landscape dominated by malware with 36%, a direct comparison with the previous timelines is not fair, since I changed the criteria for the timeline, and the previous one dates back to more than one year ago, ahead of account takeover with 15% and ransomware, with 11%.

After the cyber attacks timelines, it’s time to publish the statistics for January 2025 where I collected and analyzed 216 events.In January 2025, Cyber Crime continued to lead the Motivations chart.

In the second timeline of January 2025, I collected 107 events with a threat landscape dominated by malware with 30%, up from 18% of the previous timeline, and very close to the values of December 2024, ahead of ransomware with 19%.

In the first timeline of January 2025, I collected 109 events with a threat landscape dominated by malware with 18%, down from 33% of the previous timeline, and once again ahead of account takeovers with 17% (it was 20% in the previous timeline), and ransomware with 14%.