Attacks against Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) endpoints have exploded this year

guest · Sep 30, 2021

Attacks against Remote Desktop Protocol endpoints have exploded this year, warns ESET's latest Threat Report
September 30, 2021
https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/30/eset_threat_report/

Security specialist ESET's latest Threat Report warns of a massive increase in attacks on Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) endpoints – and new activity from the Nobelium gang against European government organisations.

ESET's figures show attacks on RDP servers having gone up 103.9 per cent since its T1 report in June - it publishes three a year - representing a total of 55 billion detected brute-force attacks, thanks in no small part to a campaign focused on Spanish targets.

"It seemed in T1 2021 that the growth of RDP attack attempts would be slowing down," ESET security awareness specialist Ondrej Kubovič told The Register.
"T2 2021 brought a bit of a surprise as the detections of RDP accelerated again. The trend suggests further growth in attack attempts and probably quite a steep one in T3, as this is typically the busiest part of the year."
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"According to our telemetry the number of attacks against Spanish targets accounted for a third of global detections in August. Following Spain by a significant margin were Germany, the United States and Italy.
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ESET: ESET Threat Report T2 2021

A view of the T2 2021 threat landscape as seen by ESET telemetry and from the perspective of ESET threat detection and research experts
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