Reply to post: Re: It's not only the internet facing ones...

Two weeks after Microsoft warned of Windows RDP worms, a million internet-facing boxes still vulnerable

Roland6 Silver badge

Re: It's not only the internet facing ones...

"Specifically, Graham said he was able to, ... find some 932,671 public-facing computers still vulnerable to CVE-2019-0708. To do this, he scanned the public internet for machines that had the Windows Remote Desktop network port (3389) open"

Given a common practice is to use a non-standard port for Internet RDS access, I expect significantly more public facing computers are still vulnerable. One hopes that they have firewalls with port scanning detection and blocking enabled.

I suspect any site/IP address that Shodan reports the presence of an MS service eg. Exchange, IIS (but not RDS) will odds on also have an MS RDS Server on a non-standard port.

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