There are a number of different types of brute force attack, each of which has the same goals detailed above.
Hybrid Brute Force Attacks
You may have heard of dictionary attacks. These are one of the most common forms of brute force attack and use a list of words in a dictionary to crack passwords. Other types of attack may use a list of commonly used passwords. If your password is 'password', for example, a brute force bot would be able to crack your password within seconds.
Reverse Brute Force Attack
Reverse brute force attacks don't target a specific username, but instead, use a common group of passwords or an individual password against a list of possible usernames.
Credential Stuffing
When a username and password pairing is known by the attacker, they can use this information to gain access to multiple websites and network resources. For example, many users choose the same password to access many different websites for the sake of simplicity. Taking precautions like using two-factor authentication and using different passwords for every different network resources can help to prevent brute force attacks that rely on credential stuffing.
