Ping Look, senior director of Microsoft's Detection and Response Team, joins Dennis Fisher to talk about her team's work helping enterprises recover from intrusions, the spike in ransomware infections, and understanding attacker behavior.
Microsoft's February security update fixes the vulnerability that can result in reverse RDP attacks in the built-in Windows RDP client, but third-party RDP clients are still vulnerable, Check Point said.
A vulnerability in the Windows print spooler service patched this week echoes a similar one exploited by the Stuxnet worm 10 years ago.
There has been a sharp increase in scans for exposed RDP servers recently as attackers try to take advantage of the move to remote work.
Microsoft has fixed three flaws that attackers were using in targeted attacks for several weeks.