How Does Password-Spraying Affect the Targets in Daily Life?
A major consequence of a password-spraying attack on your company is a decline in client confidence. Customers will be less inclined to trust you with their data and information if you are the victim of any kind of brute-force attack. They might relocate their company, which would result in more losses.
The ability for the attacker to use your login information in a phishing attempt is another possible problem with successful password spray attacks. An email sent by an attacker to a customer could hurt your business and the other party’s finances, further damaging your reputation.
What is Password Spraying?
Password Spraying is an attack in which an attacker uses a set of commonly used passwords to access a large number of accounts. The attack is perpetrated in such a way that the attacker evades account lockouts on the attempted user accounts.
In society, traditional cyber criminals try to attack an account by tracking the access point of what they want to hack and try multiple possible passwords to hack into people’s accounts.
The possible passwords can be predicted as follows:
- Trying common names. For example, fluffy, joey, etc
- Tracking down the same passwords on different websites and credentials.
- Guessing the password through social media or in-person insights.
Nowadays, hackers use new techniques such as Password-spraying. We’ll know more about it in the article.