Kaspersky Reports 52% Rise in Backdoors on Indian SMBs

Kaspersky recorded 37,38,051 attacks on Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) against Indian SMBs in H1 2026, or around 20,650 attempts a day.

Suppliers are now part of the client’s security perimeter For Indian SMBs that supply larger businesses, security is becoming a condition of doing business.

“A backdoor is how an attacker stays inside a business long after the first break-in, and a 52% rise tells us Indian SMBs are increasingly being treated as long-term footholds rather than one-off targets.

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Kaspersky recommends that SMBs: Disable RDP where it is not needed, and never expose it directly to the internet; use a VPN and multi-factor authentication instead.