New GoldBrute Botnet is Trying to Hack 1.5 Million RDP Servers

From bleepingcomputer.com

A botnet is currently scanning the internet in search of poorly protected Windows machines with Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) connection enabled.

Called GoldBrute, of the malware compiled a list of over 1.5 million unique systems and systematically tests access on them with brute-force or credential stuffing attacks.

A search on Shodan search engine shows that there are about 2.4 million machines that are reachable over the web and have remote desktop protocol enabled.

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