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 ...

Researchers at S.C. Bitdefender SRL today warned of new custom malware actively targeting remote desktop protocol clients to steal data. First noticed in its use as part of a state-sponsored East ...

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 ...

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 ...

A vulnerability in Microsoft's Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) can also be used to escape virtual machines running on Hyper-V, the virtualization technology in Azure and Windows 10. The bug is a path ...

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 ...

Everything you need to know about ransomware: how it started, why it's booming, how to protect against it, and what to do if your PC's infected. While ransomware groups each operate based on their own ...