The report found almost 5 million cyber attacks vs work-from-home desktops from January to June this year.
“These have been the devices heavily relied upon by employees working remotely while Metro Manila and other key provincial cities were put into on and off lockdowns since the pandemic began,” Kaspersky noted.
“A brute-force RDP attack targets a device running Windows and tries to find a valid RDP login or password pair. If successful, it allows an attacker to gain remote access to the targeted host computer,” it said. They cited that the attacks mostly target “corporate resources” that hastily made the transition from office work to remote work across the world.“The hurried mass transition to home working has given cyber attackers this logical conclusion that poorly configured RDP servers would surge and then we saw the number of attacks shoot up tremendously,” Tiong said.Companies and businesses should therefore ensure security in their work-from-home arrangements moving forward.
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