Preventive Measures For Password Spraying Attack?
Password spraying assaults, as we previously discussed, cannot be halted, but they can be identified and stopped before more harm is done. Here are some steps you may take to detect and prevent password spraying if you think your company has been the target of an attack:
1. Change the passwords for administrative and privileged domain accounts right away if MFA (Multi-factor authentication ) isn’t present.
2. Set up your security logging platform to detect unsuccessful login attempts on all of the office’s systems and to react quickly to any suspicious activity.
3. Use deception or endpoint detection and response (EDR) technologies to observe malicious activities and prevent hackers from migrating laterally.
4. As an additional precaution, review incident response plans and the relevant alert members.
5. Employ a security company that specializes in digital forensics and incident response to find compromised accounts, look into possible data loss, and provide extra assistance.
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.