40 Percent Increase in Brute-Force Attacks in Georgia

Throughout the previous 14-day period, Georgia has recorded how the number of automated hacking attempts has increased greatly. According to statistics from Syspeace-secured Windows Servers, there was an escalation of 40 percent in automated hacking attempts per server. At the same time, there was a slight decline of 18 percent in the whole world.

The number of attacks on Windows servers secured by Syspeace built up in the course of the previous 14 days in Georgia as 690 automated hacking attempts per Windows servers were logged by Syspeace. That means the brute-force attacks went up by 40 percent. Syspeace blocked 1,200 brute-force attacks in Georgia. It is the highest number of brute-force attacks per Windows server secured by Syspeace for a single 14-day period in the country’s measured history of hackers trying to gain access to servers.

There has been, for the purpose of comparison, an escalation of the amount of brute-force attacks in Spain and Netherlands. With 1,300 blocked brute-force attacks per Syspeace-secured Windows Server the previous 14 days, Spain has seen a rise of 43 percent in comparison with the previous 14 days. In Netherlands, the amount has grown by 13 percent to 770 brute-force attacks per Syspeace-secured Windows Server.

The attacks on Syspeace-secured Windows Servers have shown a slight decline all around the world. That is to say, Georgia is going against the flow. The brute-force attacks on Syspeace-secured Windows Servers have dropped by 18 percent in the world throughout the last fortnight. Up until today, this year there have been 1,200 brute-force attacks per Windows server secured by Syspeace in the world. Compared to the same period last year, the amount of automated hacking attempts has gone up by 46 percent. That means the sum total of automated hacking attempts in the world that were blocked by Syspeace was 1,000,000.

The data originates from Syspeace-secured Windows Servers globally. Syspeace is an intrusion-prevention software that provides affordable and easy-to-use tools for businesses to fight automated hacking attempts. Syspeace wants to make the digital world safer for companies, one server at a time. Having collected and analyzed data on automated hacking attempts since 2012, Syspeace is the world leader on the topic.

During the brute-force attack, an attacker submits many passwords or passphrases, hoping to in the end get them right. Each and every possible password and passphrase is systematically inspected to find the correct one.

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