Australia Records 27 Percent Increase in Automated Hacking Attempts

Automated hacking attempts on Windows servers in Australia have went up in the course of the previous 14-day period. Statistics from Syspeace shows automated hacking attempts per server have grown by 27 percent. However, there was a big decline of 35 percent in the whole world.

In Australia, the number of attacks on Syspeace-secured Windows Servers went up in the course of the past two weeks as 610 brute-force attacks per Windows servers were logged by Syspeace. That is to say, the automated hacking attempts went up by 27 percent. That means 15,000 total the sum total of automated hacking attempts in the Australia during the previous 14 days were blocked by Syspeace.

By means of a comparison, there has been a growth of the amount of automated hacking attempts in Germany and Romania. With 1,600 blocked brute-force attacks per Syspeace-secured server the past two weeks, Germany has recorded a growth of 34 percent in comparison with the 14 days prior. In Romania, the sum total has risen by 27 percent to 1,200 automated hacking attempts per Windows server secured by Syspeace.

The attacks on Syspeace-secured Windows Servers have shown a big drop all around the world. In other words, Australia is going against the flow. The brute-force attacks on Windows servers secured by Syspeace have declined by 35 percent in the world in the previous 14 days. Up until today, this year there have been 620 brute-force attacks per Syspeace-secured Windows Server in the world. The brute-force attacks have shot up by 35 percent on a year-to-year comparison. That is to say, Syspeace blocked 470,000 brute-force attacks in the world.

The information comes from Syspeace, a company that helps fight brute-force attacks. Syspeace saves companies time, effort, and money by blocking attacks that otherwise take many hours of repetitive, manual labor to discover and prevent. Syspeace records all the global Windows servers secured by Syspeace meticulously. The company is a global pioneer on the topic since 2012, having collected and analyzed data on automated hacking attempts.

During the brute-force attack, 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 right one.

To keep systems secure and block brute-force attacks, Syspeace provides software that safeguards firms from IT theft, combined with exceptional customer support.