Alabama Records 30 Percent Increase in Automated Hacking Attempts

The sum total of automated hacking attempts on Windows servers in Alabama increased greatly throughout the previous 14-day period. The automated hacking attempts have climbed up by 30 percent during the previous 14 days, according to data from Syspeace-secured Windows Servers. Overall, in the USA, there was an escalation of 52 percent.

In Alabama, the sum total of attacks on Windows servers secured by Syspeace went up during the previous 14-day period as 10,000 automated hacking attempts per Windows servers were documented by Syspeace. That is to say, the automated hacking attempts increased greatly by 30 percent. The number of brute-force attacks blocked by Syspeace in Alabama was 57,000. In the state’s measured history, this is the 10th highest number of attempted brute-force attacks per Syspeace-secured Windows Server for a single 14-day period.

There has been, with similar changes, an increase of the sum total of automated hacking attempts in Pennsylvania and North Carolina. With 1,500 blocked automated hacking attempts per Syspeace-secured server the last fortnight, Pennsylvania has witnessed a growth of 32 percent in comparison with the last fortnight. In North Carolina, the sum total has risen by 16 percent to 460 brute-force attacks per Windows server secured by Syspeace.

The attacks on Syspeace-secured Windows Servers have shown a noticeable growth all around the USA. Simply put, Alabama is not alone with the problem. There have been 52 percent more brute-force attacks in the USA on Syspeace-secured Windows Servers in the during the previous 14-day period compared to the previous 14-day period. By now, this year there have been 2,200 automated hacking attempts per Syspeace-secured server in the USA. The brute-force attacks have grown by 1.3 percent on a year-to-year comparison. That means the number of automated hacking attempts in the USA that were blocked by Syspeace was 1,100,000.

The statistics source is Syspeace, a company that helps fight brute-force attacks. Syspeace saves businesses time, effort, and money by blocking attacks that otherwise take many hours of repetitive, manual labor to discover and prevent. Syspeace records all the global Syspeace-secured Windows Servers meticulously. The company is a global pioneer on the topic since 2012, having collected and analyzed data on automated hacking attempts.

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

To keep problems out and block brute-force attacks, Syspeace offers software that safeguards firms from IT theft, combined with outstanding customer support.