There must be some sort of Betteridge's Law about this. I swear, every time I see the word "hackers" in a headline, it's always about either script kiddies, phishing scams, simple passwords, or some other trivial breach.
For most intents and purposes the world doesn't differentiate between hackers and script kiddies.
The world cares about individuals breaking into systems and stealing or breaking their stuff. They aren't particularly concerned about the technical sophistication of said individuals.
Number of incidents and impact on people are different things, right. I wonder when targets impacting more end-users end up happening. Taking out something like the Playstation network or Netflix will have a large impact in that way.
Not to mention all of the devices opened and connected to the internet today -- without the new users stopping pull down updates and security patches first...
My fail2ban is indeed singing jingle bells for the last 24h.
But as other stated, those are more scripts than « real » concerted attacks.
But on my small level, I confirm that holiday times (and not just those end of the year holidays, but anytimes there are office closed days (and we have a lot of them in France)) are always times where script/automatic attacks volume are rising on my servers.
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 36.5 ms ] threadThe world cares about individuals breaking into systems and stealing or breaking their stuff. They aren't particularly concerned about the technical sophistication of said individuals.
Using this data on breaches we can see there's more incident/breach activity in October than any other month. https://github.com/ericalexanderorg/SecurityBreach
But as other stated, those are more scripts than « real » concerted attacks.
But on my small level, I confirm that holiday times (and not just those end of the year holidays, but anytimes there are office closed days (and we have a lot of them in France)) are always times where script/automatic attacks volume are rising on my servers.