Invisible Invaders: Why Detecting Bot Attacks Is Becoming More Difficult

itman · Jun 19, 2017

Traditional methods can't block the latest attackers, but a behavioral approach can tell the difference between bots and humans.

In a recent automated attack, a large bot army hacked into accounts using brute-force methodology and a highly accurate username and password list. PerimeterX researchers discovered that by overwhelming sites with requests from a network of tens of thousands of Internet of Things devices such as Canon printers and network devices, and with each bot sending just a single request every 10 minutes or so, the attacker completed more than 5 million attempts per day. Furthermore, the attack was successful on 8% of attempts, breaching a shocking 400,000 accounts per day.
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EASTER · Jun 19, 2017

itman said: ↑

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Imagine that even those numbers would accelerate by the degree of increased computing power ability.

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