The March Security Bulletin release from Microsoft was relatively light in volume. Out of the six bulletins released, only one was rated as Critical.And for good reason. MS12-020 includes CVE-2012-0002. This flaw is specific to the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) present on most current versions of Microsoft Windows. The RDP service, by default, listens on TCP port 3389. And […]
Over the last few days we have seen some media buzz about a worm called Morto. Morto is an old-fashioned internet worm, which targets Windows workstations and servers by exploiting poorly-chosen weak passwords to spread via Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) connections (port 3389). It’s possible if you had a large number of infected computers within […]
We’ve had reports of a new worm in the wild and that generates increased RDP traffic for our users on port 3389. Although the overall numbers of computers reporting detections are low in comparison to more established malware families, the traffic it generates is noticeable. The worm is detected as Worm:Win32/Morto.A and you can see […]
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