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Password Spraying Attack

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  • Alternatives to password authentication

  • Audits to reveal and address weak passwords

  • Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS)

  • Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS)

  • Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)

  • Multi-Step Verification (MSV)

  • Password complexity

Sample Sentence

Alice was running a successful online shop with thousands of clients. The online shop used password-based single-factor authentication. Eve used a robot to web scrap the public profiles of the online shop and build a database of plausible passwords. She then launched a Password Spray Attack and quickly found a few hundreds valid passwords. She then used Bob as a mule to transfer to steal money using the credit card information of the shop customers.

Conceptual Diagram

Definition 2

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  • Attack Hyperonym

  • Attack Technique Hyperonym

  • Authentication

  • Brute Force Attack Hyperonym

  • Credential Stuffing Hyponym

  • Heap Spraying

  • Password

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titleJover, 2020, p. 19
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QUOT:Stubbs and Bing, 2020, p. 1
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QUOT:Dimensional Research, 2020, p. 5
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QUOT:Haber, 2020, p. 74-75
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QUOT:Vittori, 2019, p. 8
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QUOT:Counter Threat Unit Research Team, 2019, a
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QUOT:Counter Threat Unit Research Team, 2019, b
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QUOT:Rahav, 2019, p. 1
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