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InfoRiskToday Compliance March 29, 2021 March 25, 2021 DougOlenick) • January 27, 2021     Get Permission The number of distributed denial-of-service attacks launched in 2020 surpassed 10 million, up from 8.5 million in 2019, according to NetScout's Atlas Security Engineering and Response Team. DDoS attacks are often waged as part of extortion campaigns, with hackers threatening to escalate attacks if a ransom is not paid. NetScout noted the the number of DDoS attacks exceeded 800,000 per month starting in March...

Get Permission Threat actors are exploiting vulnerable Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol servers to amplify various distributed denial-of-service attacks, according to a report from application and network performance firm Netscout. Netscout researchers have identified about 33,000 vulnerable Microsoft RDP servers that could be abused by threat actors to boost their DDoS attacks. RDP is a proprietary Microsoft communications protocol that system administrators and employees use to remotely connect to corporate systems and services. Microsoft RDP can be configured by Windows systems administr...