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"xDedic Market Spilling Over With School Servers, PCs"
The xDedic Market is a underground black market selling access to already compromised servers & PCs. If you're a cyber criminal who wants or needs one or more servers, or say you want to try to move laterally over that server's network connections, you don't have to do all the hard work yourself.
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.
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.