RDP brute-force attacks continue to be one of the most used attack vectors for breaching enterprise networks, ESET’s latest Threat Report has revealed. RDP brute-force attacks escalated throughout all of 2020 and 2021, and...
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-21893, wasn’t ballyhooed amid yesterday’s crowded mega-dump of Patch Tuesday security updates, but it’s more than worthy of scrutiny, a report by CyberArk warns. click here to read full Article...
Over 70% of cloud resources available for sale on underground marketplaces are RDP accounts, making it more pervasive on the dark web than regular cloud accounts, according to a recent analysis. click here to...
Introduction These days, when speaking of cyberthreats, most people have in mind ransomware, specifically cryptomalware. In 2020–2021, with the outbreak of the pandemic and the emergence of several major cybercriminal groups (Maze, REvil, Conti,...
ESET’s latest Threat Report warns of a massive increase in attacks on Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) endpoints – and new activity from the Nobelium gang against European government organisations. click here to read full...
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Why threat hunting is obsolete without context Threat hunting is one of the more recent methodologies implemented by IT professionals to...
The longer attackers spend in an organization’s network, the more chance they have to jump to systems, crack passwords, find and exfiltrate valuable data and leave crypto-locking malware on systems. click here to read...
?The login names and passwords for 1.3 million current and historically compromised Windows Remote Desktop servers have been leaked by UAS, the largest hacker marketplace for stolen RDP credentials. click here to read full...
Figures Indicator H1 2020 H2 2020 2020 Global percentage of attacked ICS computers 32.6% 33.42% 38.55% Percentage of attacked ICS computers by region Northern Europe 10.1% 11.5% 12.3% Western Europe 15.1% 14.8% 17.6% Australia...
Obviously, the number of RDP attacks increased sharply during the COVID lockdown. Lately, researchers disclosed that RDP attacks grew by 768% between the first and fourth quarters of 2020. click here to read full Article...
A year ago — everything changed. In an effort to stem the tide of a rapidly spreading pandemic, the world shut down. Shops were forced to shut their doors, and whole countries were placed...
We all know that the attack surface has expanded because of the sudden shift to work from home, and now, this has given a boost to Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) attacks. Click here for...
There’s been a huge increase in cyber criminals attempting to perform attacks by exploiting remote login credentials over the last year, as many employees continue to work from home. Click here for image source...
While ransomware attacks continue to pummel organizations, fewer victims have been paying a ransom, and when they do, on average they’re paying less than before according to an assessment by Coveware. Click here for...
Cybercrime gangs are abusing Windows Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) systems to bounce and amplify junk traffic as part of DDoS attacks, security firm Netscout said in an alert on Tuesday. Click here for image...
Netscout researchers have identified more than 14,000 existing servers that can be abused by ‘the general attack population’ to flood organizations’ networks with traffic. Click here for image source link and to read full...
