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xDedic Market Spilling Over With School Servers, PCs

By Tom Spring

 

                                

 

Nearly two-thirds of servers and PCs peddled on the xDedic underground marketplace belong to schools and universities, and most are based in the United States.

 

In a recent analysis of xDedic, Flashpoint found that besides the education sector, PC and servers tied to healthcare and legal firms make up the bulk of the available vulnerable systems.

 

XDedic is the largest of many platforms cybercriminals use to buy access to compromised servers and PCs that use the Microsoft protocol Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). Using brute-force password attacks, the xDedic gang has grown the number of available servers and PCs available for access to 85,000, up 10 percent from a year ago, according to Flashpoint.

 

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