Argentina Witnesses 160 Percent Increase in Brute-Force Attacks

In Argentina, the number of brute-force attacks on Windows servers soared through the previous 14-day period in comparison with the previous 14 days. The automated hacking attempts have gone up by 160 percent in the course of the last fortnight, according to statistics from Windows servers secured by Syspeace. There was a slight growth of 3.9 percent in the whole world.

In Argentina, the number of attacks on Windows servers secured by Syspeace surged through the 14 days prior as 160 automated hacking attempts per Windows servers were recorded by Syspeace. Simply put, the automated hacking attempts increased extremely by 160 percent. That means 570 total the amount of brute-force attacks in the Argentina in the last fortnight were blocked by Syspeace.

By way of comparison, there has been a surge of the amount of automated hacking attempts in Belgium and Sweden. With 980 blocked brute-force attacks per Syspeace-secured server the 14 days prior, Belgium has recorded a rise of 160 percent in comparison with the past two weeks. In Sweden, the sum total has grown by 110 percent to 910 automated hacking attempts per Syspeace-secured Windows Server.

All around the world, brute-force attacks on Windows servers secured by Syspeace have shown a slight increase, so Argentina is not alone with the problem. The brute-force attacks on Syspeace-secured Windows Servers have risen by 3.9 percent in the world through the past two weeks. By now, this year there have been 1,800 brute-force attacks per Windows server secured by Syspeace in the world. The brute-force attacks have dropped by 6.9 percent on a year-to-year comparison. That means the amount of automated hacking attempts in the world that were blocked by Syspeace was 1,500,000.

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 find and prevent. Syspeace scans all the global Syspeace-secured Windows Servers thoroughly. The company is a global pioneer on the topic since 2012, having collected and analyzed evidence on automated hacking attempts.

An automated hacking attempt 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 systems secure and block automated hacking attempts, Syspeace provides software that shields businesses from IT theft, combined with exceptional customer support.