{"id":223344,"date":"2025-10-14T03:26:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T08:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/massive-multi-country-botnet-targets-rdp-services-in-the-us"},"modified":"2025-10-14T03:26:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T08:26:26","slug":"massive-multi-country-botnet-targets-rdp-services-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/massive-multi-country-botnet-targets-rdp-services-in-the-us","title":{"rendered":"Massive multi-country botnet targets RDP services in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/massive-multi-country-botnet-targets-rdp-services-in-the-us.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A large-scale botnet is targeting Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) services in the United States from more than 100,000 IP addresses.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign started on October 8 and based on the source of the IPs, researchers believe the attacks are launched by a multi-country botnet.<\/p>\n<p>RDP is a network protocol that enables remote connection and control of Windows systems. It is typically used by administrators, helpdesk staff, and remote workers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A large-scale botnet is targeting Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) services in the United States from more than 100,000 IP addresses. The campaign started on October 8 and based on the source of the IPs, researchers believe the attacks are launched by a multi-country botnet. RDP is a network protocol that enables remote connection and control [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}