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Both involve failed logins. How would you distinguish a brute-force attack from a password spray in your logs?
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Brute force only happens over VPN gateways, while password spray only targets RDP and webmail login portals.
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Brute force tries one password across many accounts; spray hammers a single account with many passwords.
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Brute force hits one account with many passwords; spray tries a few different passwords across many accounts.
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They look identical in auth logs and can only be told apart by the attacker's source-IP geolocation alone.
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