Delaware Sees 6.4 Percent Increase in Automated Hacking Attempts

Throughout the two weeks prior, the sum total of brute-force attacks in Delaware increased compared to the past two weeks. The automated hacking attempts have gone up by 6.4 percent in the course of the previous 14 days, according to statistics from Windows servers secured by Syspeace. In the whole USA, there was a big increase of 32 percent.

Syspeace logged 190 brute-force attacks per Windows servers in Delaware throughout the two weeks prior. In other words, the automated hacking attempts grew slightly by 6.4 percent. The number of brute-force attacks blocked by Syspeace in Delaware was 250.

For comparison purposes, there has been a surge of the amount of brute-force attacks in North Carolina and Rhode Island. With 46 blocked brute-force attacks per Syspeace-secured server the past two weeks, North Carolina has recorded an increase of 20 percent compared to the two weeks prior. In Rhode Island, the number has risen by 5.7 percent to 140 automated hacking attempts per Syspeace-secured server.

All around the USA, brute-force attacks on Windows servers secured by Syspeace have shown an escalation, so Delaware is not alone with the problem. There have been 32 percent more brute-force attacks in the USA on Windows servers secured by Syspeace in the in the course of the two weeks prior compared to the 14 days prior. Up until today, this year there have been 1,200 brute-force attacks per Syspeace-secured server in the USA. The automated hacking attempts have decreased by 53 percent on a year-to-year comparison. In other words, the amount of brute-force attacks blocked by Syspeace in the USA was 490,000.

The evidence is collected by 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 scans all the global Windows servers secured by Syspeace meticulously. The company is a global innovator on the topic since 2012, having collected and analyzed information on automated hacking attempts.

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

To keep problems out and block automated hacking attempts, Syspeace offers software that shields firms from IT theft, combined with exceptional customer support.