It's about time! Microsoft finally kills off encryption cipher blamed for multiple cyberattacks - RC4 bites the dust at last

Microsoft.

• RC4 has been exploited in high-profile attacks across enterprise Windows networks
• Kerberoasting exploits weaknesses in Active Directory, allowing attackers to perform offline password cracking
• AES-SHA1 requires thousands of times more resources than RC4 for cracking

Microsoft is moving to disable RC4, an encryption cipher embedded in Windows authentication for more than two decades.