cyber trends
It is essential for us
to take our digital
health as seriously
as we take our
physical health. Stay
strong and secured.
From supporting channels that carry a
small fraction of network activity, these
services have become the mainstream
channels that provide most of the
access to on-premises resources. Since
these services used to be accessed
only occasionally, many enterprises
have not patched the services’ security
vulnerabilities. Here lies a huge
opportunity for the attackers.
The remote code execution
vulnerabilities on Remote Desktop
Protocol (RDP) are highly wormable.
For instance, the BlueKeep vulnerability,
which is extremely wormable, is still
out there and attackers are trying to
develop an exploit for this. Considering
the seriousness of this security
loophole, Microsoft even released
patches for operating systems such
as Windows XP and Vista, which were
declared EOL. BlueKeep is just one
such vulnerability. There are numerous
known and unknown RDP and VPNbased
vulnerabilities out there, providing
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