Dictionary attack is an age old technology and is still popular today due to its simplicity. Its efficiency lies in that fact that still many people prefer to have common words as their passwords since their ease of remembrance. For instance, five words including “password”, “qwerty”, “baseball”, “dragon” and “football” are common dictionary words out of the ten worst password list for the year 2014.
Imagine despite of being such a basic attack in nature, how many systems and servers still stand vulnerable to this attack!!!
Top 5 Countries where Dictionary Attackers are located
Top 5 Countries where Dictionary Attackers are located
#1 India (10.2%)
#2 Brazil (9.3%)
#3 Russia (6.5%)
#4 China (6.1%)
#5 United States (5.1%)
India tops the all-time chart of locations where Dictionary Attackers are located.
#1 China (26.5%)
#2 United States (12.0%)
#3 India (5.5%)
#4 Vietnam (4.7%)
#5 Russia (4.6%)
Considering the span of last 30 days, the leader is China, followed by United States and India stands at the third position.
#1 China (23.5%)
#2 United States (14.8%)
#3 India (5.0%)
#4 Vietnam (4.2%)
#5 Germany (4.2%)
The picture remains the same for the past week span with China leading the chart followed by United States and India.
Going by the figures it appears that dictionary attackers are increasing in the constituency of China rapidly.
