{"id":69895,"date":"2025-06-06T07:35:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T23:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=69895"},"modified":"2025-05-26T17:37:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T09:37:42","slug":"breaking-passwords-still-trusted-tool-by-cybercriminals-to-try-to-infiltrate-into-firms-in-seasia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2025\/06\/06\/breaking-passwords-still-trusted-tool-by-cybercriminals-to-try-to-infiltrate-into-firms-in-seasia\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking passwords still trusted tool by cybercriminals to try to infiltrate into firms in SEAsia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Breaking passwords continues to be a trusted tool by cybercriminals to try to infiltrate into firms in Southeast Asia (SEA), based on the latest findings by global cybersecurity company Kaspersky.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From January to December 2024, Kaspersky solutions used by businesses here detected and blocked more than 53 million bruteforce attacks.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/threats.kaspersky.com\/en\/threat\/Bruteforce.Generic.RDP\/\">Bruteforce.Generic.RDP<\/a>., is a method for guessing a password or an encryption key that involves systematically trying all possible combinations of characters until a correct one is found. A successful bruteforce attack allows an attacker to obtain valid user credentials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">RDP, or remote desk protocol, is Microsoft\u2019s proprietary protocol that enables a user to connect to another computer through a network of computers running Windows.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">RDP is widely used by both system administrators and less-technical users to control servers and other PCs remotely, but this tool is also what intruders employ to try to penetrate the target computer that usually houses important corporate resources.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When devices are outside the company\u2019s local network, away from the protection of the IT department, confidential information will always have a huge potential to be stolen or lost due to carelessness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOn a daily basis, we are looking at more than 145,000 attempts to break enterprises and SMBs\u2019 passwords and encryptions in SEA. That\u2019s a lot given the&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.asiapacificsecuritymagazine.com\/gap-of-2-6-million-cybersecurity-professionals-looms\/\">current shortage<\/a>&nbsp;of cybersecurity staff in the region,\u201d comments Adrian Hia, Managing Director for Asia Pacific at Kaspersky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Indonesia and Malaysia logged double-digit increase. A total of 14,662,615 RDP attacks were aimed at firms in Indonesia last year. This is 25% higher than 11,703,925 bruteforce attacks in 2023. Malaysia witnessed a 14% uptick with 3,198,767 bruteforce attacks in 2024 versus just 2,810,648 in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWith better Artificial Intelligence (AI) services at play, cybercriminals now have a reliable assistant to guess passwords and break encryptions faster. Once successful, a bruteforce attack allows an attacker to gain remote access to the targeted host computer. Imagine the repercussions of having a spy, or more, inside your computers. Thus, it is urgent for businesses here to really look into their IT posture and recalibrate their cybersecurity capabilities,\u201d adds Hia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you use RDP in your work, be sure to take all possible\u00a0protection measures:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>At the very least, use strong passwords.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Make RDP available only through a corporate VPN.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Use\u00a0Network Level Authentication\u00a0(NLA).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If possible,\u00a0enable two-factor authentication.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If you don\u2019t use RDP, disable it and close port 3389.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Use a reliable security solution like\u00a0Kaspersky Next EDR Optimum.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From January to December 2024, Kaspersky solutions used by businesses here detected and blocked more than 53 million bruteforce attacks.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":69896,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[286,101,54,2103],"class_list":["post-69895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-it-security","tag-kaspersky","tag-security","tag-security-breach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69897,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69895\/revisions\/69897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}