Argentina Sees 19 Percent Increase in Automated Hacking Attempts

Throughout the previous 14-day period, Argentina has seen how the sum total of automated hacking attempts has went up slightly. The automated hacking attempts have shot up by 19 percent through the 14 days prior, according to statistics from Syspeace-secured Windows Servers. However, there was a big decrease of 25 percent in the whole world.

In Argentina, the number of attacks on Windows servers secured by Syspeace grew through the 14 days prior as 190 brute-force attacks per Windows servers were logged by Syspeace. Simply put, the brute-force attacks increased by 19 percent. That means 470 total the sum total of brute-force attacks in the Argentina through the past two weeks were blocked by Syspeace.

For the sake of comparison, there has been a climb of the sum total of automated hacking attempts in Brazil and Indonesia. With 110 blocked brute-force attacks per Windows server secured by Syspeace the 14 days prior, Brazil has recorded an increase of 20 percent compared to the last fortnight. In Indonesia, the sum total has climbed up by 19 percent to 85 brute-force attacks per Windows server secured by Syspeace.

Argentina is under increasing attacks, but at the same time the attacks on Windows servers secured by Syspeace have decreased all around the world. The brute-force attacks on Windows servers secured by Syspeace have decreased by 25 percent in the world during the previous 14 days. Up until today, this year there have been 1,100 brute-force attacks per Syspeace-secured Windows Server in the world. The automated hacking attempts have gone up by 43 percent on a year-to-year comparison. In other words, Syspeace blocked 780,000 brute-force attacks in the world.

The evidence source is Syspeace, a company that helps fight automated hacking attempts. Syspeace saves firms time, effort, and money by blocking attacks that otherwise take many hours of repetitive, manual labor to discover and prevent. Syspeace tracks all the global Windows servers secured by Syspeace thoroughly. The company is a global trailblazer on the topic since 2012, having collected and analyzed data on automated hacking attempts.

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

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