This new Windows feature will protect users against phishing campaigns

Microsoft has updated its official support page to announce a new security feature for all supported Windows clients that will protect users against brute-force phishing attacks where hackers try to take over systems by guessing passwords. The Redmond giant mentions that brute force attacks are one of the top three ways used by attackers to compromise Windows machines. The new local admin account lockout feature will prevent attackers from hitting the account with an unlimited number of password-guessing attempts. Earlier, Windows didn’t allow users to lock out local admins and these brute-force attacks were highly successful against systems that have a short and simple password.

Windows local admin lockout feature: Availability
The company’s official blog mentions that new machines that include Windows cumulative updates before they are set up will have this feature enabled as default. However, machines that are already running supported Windows versions and need to separately install this new update will have to manually enable the feature.