Security News > 2020 > April > Millions of Brute-Force Attacks Hit Remote Desktop Accounts

The attacks are a likely offshoot of cybercriminals looking to take advantage of the unprecedented numbers of employees working from home amid the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers noted.

A successful attack would give cybercriminals remote access to the target computer with the same permissions and access to data and folders that a legitimate user would have.

According to Dmitry Galov, security researcher with Kaspersky, organizations worldwide have seen rocketing numbers of generic brute-forcing attacks, where automated scripts try different combinations of passwords and user IDs on accounts in hopes of finding a combination that works to unlock them.

The growth in the number of brute-force RDP attacks went from hovering around 100,000 to 150,000 per day in January and February to soaring to nearly a million per day at the beginning of March, as coronavirus-related remote working got underway.

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