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Tuesday, January 26, 2021

Use of Remote Desktop Protocol in DDoS Attacks (CERT-EU Security Advisory 2021-005)

DDoS attacks were observed recently, where Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) was abused in order to reflect and amplify the amount of bandwidth involved. This is not a vulnerability by itself, but an abuse of the RDP protocol design. Attacks using this technique were observed with sizes range from 20-750 Gbps.
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