Mexico Records 34 Percent Increase in Brute-Force Attacks

Automated hacking attempts on Windows servers in Mexico have went up throughout the previous 14-day period. Information from Syspeace shows brute-force attacks per server have risen by 34 percent. However, there was a big drop of 25 percent in the whole world.

In Mexico, the number of attacks on Windows servers secured by Syspeace increased greatly in the course of the previous 14-day period as 81 brute-force attacks per Windows servers were documented by Syspeace. That is to say, the brute-force attacks increased greatly by 34 percent. Syspeace blocked 240 automated hacking attempts in Mexico.

There has been, for a comparison, a growth of the sum total of brute-force attacks in Spain and United Kingdom. With 320 blocked brute-force attacks per Syspeace-secured server the previous 14 days, Spain has witnessed an increase of 38 percent in comparison with the last fortnight. In United Kingdom, the sum total has shot up by 29 percent to 440 automated hacking attempts per Syspeace-secured Windows Server.

The attacks on Syspeace-secured Windows Servers have shown a big decline all around the world. That is to say, Mexico is going against the flow. Throughout the last weeks, there have been 25 percent less automated hacking attempts than in the previous 14 days in the world. Up until now, this year there have been 1,100 brute-force attacks per Syspeace-secured server in the world. The brute-force attacks have decreased by 43 percent on a year-to-year comparison. In other words, the number of automated hacking attempts blocked by Syspeace in the world was 780,000.

The data originates 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 statistics on brute-force attacks since 2012, Syspeace is a global innovator on the topic. The company believes that cyber security management doesn’t have to be complicated and expensive.

An brute-force attack consists of an attacker submitting many passwords or passphrases with the hope of eventually guessing them. The attacker systematically inspects all possible passwords and passphrases and tries to find the correct one.

To keep trouble out and block automated hacking attempts, Syspeace offers software that protects firms from IT theft, combined with exceptional customer support.