Matt Dunn, associate managing director in Kroll’s Cyber Risk practice, discusses options for securing RDP, which differ significantly in terms of effectiveness. Kroll’s Paul Drapeau, Jeff Macko and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) became a hot target for cybercrime as businesses shifted to remote work due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A year later, the trend shows no sign of slowing. RDP, Microsoft's ...

Remote access tools are typically built around a primary protocol. For instance, Microsoft Remote Desktop is a pure RDP ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Windows Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) servers are now being abused by DDoS-for-hire services to amplify Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. The Microsoft RDP service is a built-in Windows ...

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. Not all RDP ...

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 ...