Kaspersky: RDP brute-force attacks have gone up since start of COVID-19
Summary
Cyber-security firm Kaspersky says the number of brute-force attacks targeting RDP endpoints rose sharply since the onset of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. "Since the beginning of March, the number of Bruteforce.Generic.RDP attacks has rocketed across almost the entire planet," the Russian antivirus vendor said today. RDP brute-force attacks are always going on, representing a good chunk of all the bad traffic recorded every day on the internet. " Other gangs buy these credentials, access a companys network, and then steal proprietary data, perform reconnaissance before attempting a wire fraud (BEC) attack, or install ransomware to encrypt files and demand a ransom payment. Kaspersky experts advice companies and system administrators to apply a series of security protections to safeguard RDP endpoints against attacks, or disable the service, if they dont use.
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