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Majd Sawaf
There are numerous types of
Brute Force Attacks
Brute Force
When an attacker submits numerous combinations of passwords on the target machine. Brute force consists of a hacking tool and persistent guesses to log in.
Attacker –> Automated hacking tool –> Persistent login attempts into target machine –> Response of success or failure
Dictionary
Is a type of Brute Force attack. Attacker uses the dictionary to attain common passwords.
Password Spraying
Password Spraying attack is another type of Brute Force attack. An attacker attains a list of usernames and endeavors the same password on different user accounts.
Rainbow Table
Cracking password hashes. To identify passwords from their cryptographic hashes in a database.