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 ...

Another day, another security breach. Today, it’s a number of breaches that may or may not tie together, but all seem to have one thing in common: poor remote access security. Most notably, the US ...

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 ...

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 new report from Palo Alto Network Inc.’s Unit 42 finds that 85% of organizations have Remote Desktop Protocol internet accessible for at least 25% of the month, leaving them open to ransomware ...

Attackers have increasingly targeted remote Windows systems, fueling a surge in credential-stuffing attacks against systems running the remote desktop protocol (RDP), which jumped nearly ninefold in ...

The FBI, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Australian Cyber Security Center (ACSC) are warning small businesses about using remote access software like Remote Desktop ...

Most Windows versions are at risk of remote, unprivileged attackers abusing RDP from the inside to hijack smart cards and get unauthorized file system access. Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) pipes have ...

Remote access is a powerful tool, but the options currently available leave something to be desired. RDP — Remote Desktop Protocol — is excellent in Windows-only environments, but exposing it to the ...

Threat actors behind the relatively new Venus Ransomware are hacking into publicly-exposed Remote Desktop services to encrypt Windows devices. Venus Ransomware appears to have begun operating in the ...

A remote access software is a type of software that allows you to connect and control your computer from another location. This type of software is often used by companies and individuals who want to ...