Noticeable Growth of Automated Hacking Attempts in Czech Republic Documented

The amount of brute-force attacks on Windows servers in Czech Republic increased slightly through the previous 14-day period. Evidence from Syspeace shows brute-force attacks per server have gone up by 4.6 percent. However, there was a slight drop of 14 percent in the whole world.

Syspeace registered 27 brute-force attacks per Windows servers in Czech Republic in the two weeks prior. That means the brute-force attacks went up slightly by 4.6 percent. Syspeace blocked 39 brute-force attacks in Czech Republic.

By means of a comparison, there has been a rise of the sum total of brute-force attacks in Brazil and South Africa. With 230 blocked automated hacking attempts per Syspeace-secured Windows Server the 14 days prior, Brazil has recorded a growth of 4.9 percent in comparison with the previous 14-day period. In South Africa, the number has gone up by 1.1 percent to 5,000 brute-force attacks per Windows server secured by Syspeace.

Czech Republic is under increasing attacks, but at the same time the attacks on Syspeace-secured Windows Servers have decreased all around the world. There have been 14 percent less brute-force attacks in the world on Windows servers secured by Syspeace through the last fortnight compared to the two weeks prior. Up until now, this year there have been 2,000 automated hacking attempts per Windows server secured by Syspeace in the world. The automated hacking attempts have grown by 74 percent on a year-to-year comparison. That means the sum total of automated hacking attempts in the world that were blocked by Syspeace was 1,500,000.

The data comes from Syspeace, a service provider that fights automated hacking attempts. Syspeace wants to make the digital world safer for businesses, one server at a time. Having collected and analyzed evidence on automated hacking attempts since 2012, Syspeace is a global pioneer on the topic. The company believes that cyber security management doesn’t have to be complicated and expensive.

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 problems out and block brute-force attacks, Syspeace offers software that protects enterprises from IT theft, combined with outstanding customer support.