Types of Password Attacks

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Types of Password Attacks
April 27, 2020
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In the world of the internet, millions of User accounts are created every day and so are their passwords, being an essential medium to access a user account. Strong passwords are considered as the first defense against password attacks.
Types of Passwords Attacks
The most common attacks carried out nowadays are related to cracking passwords, and the most commonly known password attack is only brute-forcing. There are, in fact, other kinds of attacks around passwords that should be known to all the users.
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Brute force attack: In a brute force attack, a hacker uses a computer program to login to a user’s account with all possible password combinations.
Dictionary attack: A dictionary attack only tries possibilities of passwords most likely to succeed whereas brute force attack goes letter by letter.
Phishing: In a phishing attack, hackers disguise their phishing attacks as unsuspecting emails, posing as legitimate and known services. From these emails, hackers take users to fake login pages disguised as a legitimate service.
Rainbow table attack: Rainbow table attacks are such that form a point on the spectrum of the space-time trade-off that occurs in exhaustive attacks.
Credential stuffing: In a credential stuffing attack, hackers use lists of stolen usernames and passwords in combination on various accounts, automatically trying over and over until they hit a match.
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Password spraying: A Password spraying attack is made by hackers by getting a list of the most commonly used passwords across the web or even from past intelligence gathered on the target, and attacking the target by trying these concrete sets of passwords.
Keylogger Attack: One of the most insidious kinds of attacks hackers increasingly use involve “keyloggers.” Keyloggers record every keystroke a device user types into a mobile, laptop, or desktop computer.
Traffic interception: In this attack, the cyber criminal uses software such as packet sniffers to monitor network traffic and capture passwords as they’re passed.
Man-in-the-middle: In this attack, the hacker’s program doesn’t just monitor information being passed but actively inserts itself in the middle of the interaction, usually by impersonating a website or app.
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Password Attacks 101

One of the most common attacks carried out nowadays is related to cracking passwords, but most people probably just know about brute-forcing. There are, in fact, other kinds of attacks around passwords.
Let’s take a look at three kinds of password attacks.
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