Millions of Endpoints Exposed via RDP: Report

itman · Aug 14, 2017

There are 4.1 million Windows endpoints online that would accept communication via the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) in one way or another, a recent Rapid7 report reveals.

As part of a study focused on the overall RDP exposure of Windows endpoints, the security firm discovered that there are 11 million open 3389/TCP endpoints, and that 4.1 million of them are “RDP speaking of some manner or another.”

The research follows previous reports from the company, which revealed 10.8 million supposedly open RDP endpoints in early 2016, and 7.2 million such endpoints in the first quarter of this year. According to Rapid7, however, the actual risk doesn’t come from exposing the endpoint, but from exposing the protocol.
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http://www.securityweek.com/millions-endpoints-exposed-rdp-report

guest · Sep 27, 2018

FBI warns companies about hackers increasingly abusing RDP connections
September 27, 2018
https://www.zdnet.com/article/fbi-w...hackers-increasingly-abusing-rdp-connections/

In a public service announcement published today by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), the FBI is warning companies about the dangers of leaving RDP endpoints exposed online.

In its alert, the FBI mentions that the number of computers with an RDP connection left accessible on the Internet has gone up since mid and late 2016.

This assertion from the FBI correlates with numbers and trends reported by cyber-security firms in the past few years. For example, just one company, Rapid7, reported seeing nine million devices with port 3389 (RDP) enabled on the Internet in early 2016, and that number rose to over 11 million by mid-to-late 2017.

For the past few years, there has been a constant stream of incident reports in which investigators found that hackers got an initial foothold on victims' networks thanks via a computer with an exposed RDP connection.
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