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Few attacks target accounts protected by long passwords or passwords with special characters.
Most cybercriminals carry out brute force attacks to guess short passwords, and few attacks target accounts protected by long passwords or passwords with special characters.
“I analyzed the credentials entered in over 25 million brute force attacks on SSH. That's about 30 days of data on Microsoft's sensor network. In 77% of cases, a password of 1 to 7 characters was used. A password longer than 10 characters was encountered only in 6% of cases, ”experts told The Record.
Only 7% of the time the credentials contained a special character. In addition, 39% of the credentials contained at least one number, and none of the brute force attacks encountered a password with spaces. According to the results of the study, longer passwords are protected from the vast majority of brute-force attacks, if they have not leaked onto the Network and are not in the databases of the cybercriminals.
Based on data from more than 14 billion brute-force attacks launched by hackers against Microsoft's honeypot server network, attacks on Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) servers have tripled since 2020 (up 325%).
Most cybercriminals carry out brute force attacks to guess short passwords, and few attacks target accounts protected by long passwords or passwords with special characters.
“I analyzed the credentials entered in over 25 million brute force attacks on SSH. That's about 30 days of data on Microsoft's sensor network. In 77% of cases, a password of 1 to 7 characters was used. A password longer than 10 characters was encountered only in 6% of cases, ”experts told The Record.
Only 7% of the time the credentials contained a special character. In addition, 39% of the credentials contained at least one number, and none of the brute force attacks encountered a password with spaces. According to the results of the study, longer passwords are protected from the vast majority of brute-force attacks, if they have not leaked onto the Network and are not in the databases of the cybercriminals.
Based on data from more than 14 billion brute-force attacks launched by hackers against Microsoft's honeypot server network, attacks on Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) servers have tripled since 2020 (up 325%).
