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Sead Fadilpašić

Remote desktop protocol attacks are becoming a huge threat to businesses everywhere

Security.

Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), a system that allows users to control a computer remotely, was used in nine out of every ten cyberattacks that happened in 2023, new research has claimed.

A paper from Sophos based on analysis of more than 150 incident response (IR) cases from 2023 concludes the percentage of attacks abusing RDP has never been higher since it started tracking this metric back in 2020. In the majority of cases (65%), RDP is used to establish initial access to the target endpoint.

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