Arizona Sees 25 Percent Increase in Automated Hacking Attempts

The sum total of brute-force attacks on Windows servers in Arizona went up during the previous 14 days. Evidence from Syspeace shows brute-force attacks per server have shot up by 25 percent. At the same time, there was no change in the sum total of automated hacking attempts in the whole USA.

In Arizona, the sum total of attacks on Syspeace-secured Windows Servers increased greatly throughout the previous 14 days as 250 automated hacking attempts per Windows servers were logged by Syspeace. That means the automated hacking attempts increased noticeably by 25 percent. That means 620 total the amount of automated hacking attempts in the Arizona in the previous 14 days were blocked by Syspeace.

There has been, for comparison purposes, a growth of the sum total of automated hacking attempts in Nebraska and Minnesota. With 140 blocked automated hacking attempts per Windows server secured by Syspeace the two weeks prior, Nebraska has recorded a climb of 34 percent compared to the past two weeks. In Minnesota, the number has grown by 24 percent to 60 automated hacking attempts per Syspeace-secured server.

Up until today, this year there have been 810 brute-force attacks per Syspeace-secured Windows Server in the USA. The automated hacking attempts have gone up by 52 percent on a year-to-year comparison. Simply put, Syspeace blocked 320,000 brute-force attacks in the USA.

The statistics source is Windows servers secured by Syspeace globally. Syspeace is an intrusion-prevention software that provides affordable and easy-to-use tools for firms to fight brute-force attacks. Syspeace wants to make the digital world safer for enterprises, one server at a time. Having collected and analyzed data on automated hacking attempts since 2012, Syspeace is the world leader on the topic.

An brute-force attack consists of an attacker submitting many passwords or passphrases with the hope of in the end guessing them. The attacker systematically inspects all possible passwords and passphrases and tries to find the correct one.

To keep problems out and block brute-force attacks, Syspeace offers software that shields firms from IT theft, combined with exceptional customer support.