I built it – and hackers came It’s been an eventful 12 months. With people working from home, there’s been an over 40% surge in machines accessible from the internet running RDP, with RDP attacks up over 400%. 1 This site even has instructions for how to create more than one RDP instance on the same Windows 10 machine. 2 There are also these instructions for Windows 2016, that create a larger attack surface that by allowing multiple RDP connections into the same endpoint.

2020 saw a number of things that rose more than 1500%: Let’s focus on the latter. According to a new threat intelligence report from Nuspire, and their threat intelligence partner Recorded Future, in Q1 2021, “there was a 1,916% increase in attacks against Fortinet’s SSL-VPN and a 1,527% increase in Pulse Connect Secure VPN. These vulnerabilities allow a threat actor to gain access to a network. Once they are in, they can exfiltrate information and deploy ransomware.”