Slight Growth in Automated Hacking Attempts in Arkansas

The number of automated hacking attempts on Windows servers in Arkansas grew slightly in the course of the previous 14-day period. According to evidence from Windows servers secured by Syspeace, there was a rise of 12 percent in brute-force attacks per server. Overall, in the USA, there was a noticeable growth of 33 percent.

Syspeace logged 4,100 brute-force attacks per Windows servers in Arkansas in the previous 14-day period. Simply put, the brute-force attacks grew slightly by 12 percent. The sum total of brute-force attacks blocked by Syspeace in Arkansas was 4,100.

There has been, for the sake of comparison, a surge of the sum total of automated hacking attempts in Washington and California. With 5,700 blocked automated hacking attempts per Syspeace-secured server the two weeks prior, Washington has recorded an escalation of 16 percent compared to the past two weeks. In California, the number has climbed up by 11 percent to 1,600 automated hacking attempts per Windows server secured by Syspeace.

Arkansas is not alone. The attacks on Windows servers secured by Syspeace have shown a big increase all around the USA. Throughout the last weeks there have been 33 percent more automated hacking attempts than in the course of the past two weeks in the USA. So far, this year there have been 1,000 brute-force attacks per Syspeace-secured server in the USA. The automated hacking attempts have dropped by 59 percent on a year-to-year comparison. In other words, Syspeace blocked 340,000 brute-force attacks in the USA.

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

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

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