Remote Desktop Protocol
Iranian-Back Group Behind Attacks on Transit Systems in LA, South Florida
System breaches of transit systems in Los Angeles and Southern Florida were tied to an Iranian-backed threat group called Black Shadow through an investigation by Gambit Security into the infrastructure used and ...
Microsoft Patch Tuesday, November 2021 Edition
Microsoft Corp. today released updates to quash at least 55 security bugs in its Windows operating systems and other software. Two of the patches address vulnerabilities that are already being used in ...
How the Cybersecurity Industry Changed in 2020
As a result of the global pandemic, rapid digital transformation has shifted the cybersecurity landscape into uncharted territory. The massive influx of data to the cloud as a result of the shift ...
Remote Work Pushes Brute-Force Attacks Higher
The widespread switch to work-from-home arrangements around the globe means employees are working offsite at unprecedented levels. It’s also prompted cybercriminals to find additional targets to exploit. We have heard for months ...
New York City Schools Ban Zoom over Security and Privacy Woes
The State of New York has decided to ban Zoom from city schools amid news of security and privacy concerns surrounding the popular videoconferencing software. “DOE staff and service providers should cease ...
Spike in Remote Work Leads to 40% Increase in RDP Exposure to Hackers
As Covid-19 continues to wreak havoc globally, companies are keeping their employees at home. To ensure compliance and stay atop security standards, teleworkers have to patch into their company’s infrastructure using remote ...
RDP Abuse and Swiss Army Knife Tool Used to Pillage, Encrypt and Manipulate Data
Bitdefender researchers recently found threat actors abusing a legitimate feature in the RDP service to act as a fileless attack technique, dropping a multi-purpose off-the-shelf tool for device fingerprinting and for planting ...
North Korean APT Group Targets Academia via Malicious Chrome Extensions
Security researchers have uncovered an APT group with possible ties to North Korea that has targeted academic institutions since May. The group, dubbed Stolen Pencil by researchers from Netscout, send spear-phishing emails ...
Sophisticated IoT Botnet Torii Uses 6 Persistence Methods
Security researchers have uncovered a new botnet targeting Linux-based devices that’s more sophisticated than Mirai and most other IoT botnets observed so far. Researchers from antivirus vendor Avast have dubbed the new ...
How to protect your RDP access from ransomware attacks
Ransomware distributors have started using RDP to gain access to business networks. Do you have your remote desktops under control? Categories: Business Security world Tags: businessransomwarerdpremote accessremote desktop protocol (Read more...) The ...
