Keep Your Password, Apply These Tips To Avoid Bruteforce Attacks

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JAKARTA - Kaspersky's cybersecurity solution found more than 61 million Bruteforce attacks.Generic.RDP. during 2023, with 25.974.425 found in Vietnam 11.703.925 attacks in Indonesia.

Managing Director for Asia Pacific at Kaspersky Adrian Hia, revealed that the bruteforce attack was not a threat the company could ignore.

The use of third-party services for data exchange, employees who work using computers at home, and potentially unsafe Wi-Fi networks, as well as the use of remote access tools such as RDP are still problems for the company's infosec team," explained Hia.

Coupled with advances in artificial intelligence (AI) technology, which can be used to break the company's login and password pairs more quickly.

Because once threat actors gain long-distance access to your company's computer, the possible financial and even reputational losses incurred become unlimited.

"Business must improve their endpoints and network security postures to defend against smarter AI-based Bruteforce attacks," he added.

If you are using Microsoft's RDP or protocol at work, make sure to take all these measures to protect you:

Not to forget, Hia also suggested that all companies could take further steps in maintaining their security limits.