One of the big reasons why security teams struggle to keep up with threats is because the bad guys are relentless with their attack attempts. The security community has long warned enterprises of the scope of cybercriminal efforts to seek out vulnerable targets of opportunity through automated attack tools. But sometimes it is hard to take in the scale of it all without a number to back it up. New research out this week from security start-up tCell did just that.
In a recent study, the firm showed that attackers seeking to breach organizations through cross-site scripting attacks made over 100,000 failed attempts for every successful breach.