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 ...

An Internet-wide scan carried out by security researchers from Rapid7 has discovered over 11 million devices with 3389/TCP ports left open online, of which over 4.1 million are specifically speaking ...

FDN3 brute-force attacks peaked July 6–8, 2025, tied to Seychelles bulletproof hosts enabling ransomware entry.

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 ...

Attackers are increasingly targeting corporate resources used by employees who have now moved to work from home due to lockdown and shelter in place orders issued during the ongoing pandemic. A highly ...

If the client computer keeps disconnecting when connected to a remote desktop PC, especially via the VPN, this post will help you resolve the issue. If your client ...

My WinXP production workstation accesses production-domain restricted-access share drives where developer packages are stored. The various win2003 servers in Level 2, Level 3 and Level 4 are all in ...

If you’ve read this far, I hope it’s clear by now that the easiest way to get your systems hacked using RDP is to pick crappy credentials. Unfortunately, far too many organizations that end up for ...

Around 0.08% of RDP brute-force attacks are successful, and RDP brute-force attacks last 2-3 days on average, Microsoft said last month while presenting the results of a months-long study into the ...