Georgia Sees a Slight Growth in Automated Hacking Attempts

The number of automated hacking attempts on Windows servers in Georgia increased in the course of the previous 14-day period. Information from Syspeace shows automated hacking attempts per server have gone up by 26 percent. Overall, in the world, there was a big increase of 4.9 percent.

Syspeace documented 500 automated hacking attempts per Windows servers in Georgia during the last fortnight. The brute-force attacks increased by 26 percent. That means 920 total the sum total of automated hacking attempts in the Georgia throughout the last fortnight were blocked by Syspeace. In the country’s measured history, this is the 2nd highest number of attempted brute-force attacks per Syspeace Windows server for a single 14-day period.

There has been, by means of a comparison, an escalation of the amount of automated hacking attempts in Canada and Morocco. With 1,100 blocked brute-force attacks per Syspeace Windows server the previous 14-day period, Canada has seen a growth of 32 percent in comparison with the last fortnight. In Morocco, the sum total has risen by 16 percent to 240 automated hacking attempts per Syspeace Windows server.

The attacks on Syspeace Windows servers have shown a big increase all around the world. In other words, Georgia is not alone with the problem. The brute-force attacks on Syspeace Windows servers have grown by 4.9 percent through the past two weeks. So far, this year there have been 1,400 brute-force attacks per Syspeace-secured server in the world. Compared to the same period last year, the amount of automated hacking attempts has grown by 50 percent. That means the amount of automated hacking attempts in the world that were blocked by Syspeace was 1,200,000.

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

A 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 avoid trouble and to block automated hacking attempts, Syspeace offers software that protects enterprises from IT theft, combined with great customer support.