Home office attacks: RDP attacks increase by 4.516 percent
Home offices under attack: RDP attacks increase by 4.516 percent. Corona pandemic and lockdowns in the DACH region have led to an explosive increase in attacks on the protocol. Cyber criminals in Germany, Austria and Switzerland have massively targeted companies and their employees in the home office. In December 2020 alone, the European IT security manufacturer ESET registered an average of 14,3 million attacks on the remote desktop protocol (RDP for short) in these three countries every day. In January there were only 310.000. Especially with the second lockdown as a result of the corona pandemic and the efforts of politicians to get as many employees as possible ...