RDP brute-force attacks continue to be one of the most used attack vectors for breaching enterprise networks, ESET’s latest Threat Report has revealed.
RDP brute-force attacks escalated throughout all of 2020 and 2021, and the last four months of 2021 brought a further acceleration, with an increase of 274% (from 55 billion in T2 2021 to 206 billion in T3 2021).
But while the intensity of these attacks is growing, detections by the company’s solutions show that the number of targets has been gradually shrinking – “although it doesn’t seem like the rampage is about to end any time soon.”
