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How Long Does It Take For a Public RDP Server to be Hacked

Even though we keep telling people not to enable Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) on Internet facing servers, a recent check showed there were still a million servers vulnerable. “In recent years, criminals deploying targeted ransomware like BitPaymer, Ryuk, Matrix, and SamSam have almost completely abandoned other methods of network ingress in favor of using […]

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CrySiS Ransomware Targets Open RDP Servers

The FBI released an alert this week about malware called CrySiS that attacks public facing servers that have RDP enabled. RDP or Remote Desktop Protocol is an old Microsoft protocol that was designed to allow IT people to remotely control a Windows machine (server or desktop) to perform maintenance.  The protocol is old – it […]

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