Maryland Witnesses No Change in Automated Hacking Attempts

The number of automated hacking attempts on Windows servers in Maryland remained the same throughout the past two weeks. The sum total of automated hacking attempts has remained the same. Overall, there was no noticeable change in automated hacking attempts in the USA.

In Maryland, the number of attacks on Windows servers secured by Syspeace remained unchanged during the previous 14 days as 2,500 brute-force attacks per Windows servers were documented by Syspeace. Simply put, the level of the automated hacking attempts remained the same as the last fortnight. Syspeace blocked 61,000 brute-force attacks in Maryland. It is the 2nd highest number of automated hacking attempts per Windows server secured by Syspeace for a single 14-day period in the state’s measured history of hackers trying to gain access to servers.

North Carolina and Kentucky have witnessed no significant changes in brute-force attacks in the past two weeks. There have been 510 of brute-force attacks per Syspeace-secured server in North Carolina in the course of the two weeks prior. In Kentucky the amount is 180.

By now, this year there have been 2,200 automated hacking attempts per Syspeace-secured server in the USA. The brute-force attacks have grown by 55 percent on a year-to-year comparison. That means the sum total of automated hacking attempts in the USA that were blocked by Syspeace was 1,100,000.

The statistics is released from Syspeace, a company that helps fight brute-force attacks. Syspeace saves enterprises time, effort, and money by blocking attacks that otherwise take many hours of repetitive, manual labor to track down and prevent. Syspeace monitors all the global syspeaces thoroughly. The company is a global trailblazer on the topic since 2012, having collected and analyzed information on brute-force attacks.

During the automated hacking attempt, an attacker submits many different passwords and passphrases in the system, hoping to ultimately get them right. The attacker systematically checks all possible passwords and passphrases to find the correct one.

To keep problems out and block brute-force attacks, Syspeace offers software that protects companies from IT theft, combined with outstanding customer support.