In the past year, cybercriminals behind two of the biggest ransomware attacks have abandoned other techniques in favor of exploiting remote desktop protocol. Matt Boddy of Sophos explains why RDP ...

Microsoft's Remote Desktop Protocol, or RDP, is one of the most widely used utilities for connecting to remote machines. But it poses risks if organizations don't actively monitor how it's being used, ...

The Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) is an incredibly useful feature used by likely millions of people every day. Considering it is free and preinstalled from Microsoft, it beats out most other ...

Internet intelligence firm GreyNoise reports that it has recorded a significant spike in scanning activity consisting of nearly 1,971 IP addresses probing Microsoft Remote Desktop Web Access and RDP ...

How to better secure your Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol connections Your email has been sent With the coronavirus spreading across the world, more people are working from home as a way to practice ...

UPDATE (June 29th, 2020): My colleague Ondrej Kubovič has written an update on RDP attacks identified through ESET's telemetry through the past half-year, as well as providing additional guidance on ...

Automated attacks on Remote Desktop Protocol accounts are aimed at taking over corporate desktops and infiltrating networks. A rash of brute-forcing attempts aimed at users of Microsoft’s proprietary ...

As the COVID-19 pandemic spread around the globe, many of us, myself included, turned to working full-time from home. Many of ESET’s employees were already accustomed to working remotely part of the ...

Multiple major vulnerabilities were discovered in the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) protocol which can allow bad actors to take control of computers connecting to a malicious server using remote code ...

Remote desktop protocol (RDP) attacks increase by 768% between Q1 and Q4 last year, fuelled by the shift to remote working, according to ESET’s Q4 2020 Threat Report. However, a slower rate of growth ...

Microsoft on Tuesday released August security updates, addressing about 93 common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs). This month's patch bundle is actually considered to be a "light load," according ...

Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) is an easy-to-find and popular target for remote attackers, according to a recent study conducted by Sophos. Researchers at the Oxford, U.K.-based IT security solutions ...