Exploring a New Class of Kernel Exploit Primitive

The security landscape is dynamic, changing often and as a result, attack surfaces evolve. MSRC receives a wide variety of cases spanning different products, bug types and exploit primitives. One particularly interesting primitive we see is an arbitrary kernel pointer read. These often happen whe...

Exploring a New Class of Kernel Exploit Primitive

The security landscape is dynamic, changing often and as a result, attack surfaces evolve. MSRC receives a wide variety of cases spanning different products, bug types and exploit primitives. One particularly interesting primitive we see is an arbitrary kernel pointer read. These often happen whe...

Reasons Why Every Business is a Target of DDoS Attacks

DDoS Distributed Denial of Service attacks are making headlines almost every day. 2021 saw a 434% upsurge in DDoS attacks, 5.5 times higher than 2020. Q3 2021 saw a 24% increase in the number of DDoS attacks in comparison to Q3 2020. Advanced DDoS attacks that are typically targeted, known as sma...

The Internet’s Most Tempting Targets

The number of exposed assets keeps climbing, but existing security strategies aren’t keeping up. Attack surfaces are getting more complex, and the excruciatingly hard part is figuring out where to focus. For every 1,000 assets on an attack surface, there is often only one that’s truly interesting...

Time to Ditch Big-Brother Accounts for Network Scanning

In almost every network, there is a highly privileged service account remotely connecting to all computers. These accounts are usually used by backup, security or monitoring solutions. But using such accounts to remotely login to systems on the network introduces unnecessary risk — it’s a bad...

New Malware Targets Windows Subsystem for Linux to Evade Detection

A number of malicious samples have been created for the Windows Subsystem for Linux WSL with the goal of compromising Windows machines, highlighting a sneaky method that allows the operators to stay under the radar and thwart detection by popular anti-malware engines. The "distinct tradecraft"...

Popular Attack Surfaces, August 2021: What You Need to Know

See the Updates section at the end of this post for new information as it comes to light. Whether you attended virtually, IRL, or not at all, Black Hat and DEF CON have officially wrapped, and security folks’ brains are replete with fresh information on new and some not-so-new vulnerabilities and...

[Security Nation] Jonathan Cran on demystifying startup funding for security companies

!\Security Nation\ Jonathan Cran on demystifying startup funding for security companieshttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2021/07/securitynationlogo.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, we’re joined by Jonathan Cran. We wade into uncharted territory with Jonathan, as he claims the title of...

The Future of Machine Learning and Cybersecurity

The Center for Security and Emerging Technology has a new report: "Machine Learning and Cybersecurity: Hype and Reality." Heres the bottom line: The report offers four conclusions: Machine learning can help defenders more accurately detect and triage potential attacks. However, in many cases thes...

Privilege Escalation

AppArmor is vulnerable to privilege escalation attacks. An unauthenticated attacker could have increased attack surfaces which would allow privilege escalation due to the use of common logic to handle 'restart' operations...

4 Free Online Cyber Security Testing Tools For 2021

Set of must-have online security tools that we believe may make a real difference to your cybersecurity program and improve your 2021 budget planning. In September, Gartner published a list of "Top 9 Security and Risk Trends for 2020" putting a bold emphasis on the growing complexity and size of...

How COVID-19 Has Changed Business Cybersecurity Priorities Forever

For much of this year, IT professionals all over the globe have had their hands full, finding ways to help businesses cope with the fallout of the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. In many cases, it involved a rapid rollout of significant remote work infrastructure. That infrastructure was called in...

How COVID-19 Has Changed Business Cybersecurity Priorities Forever

For much of this year, IT professionals all over the globe have had their hands full, finding ways to help businesses cope with the fallout of the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. In many cases, it involved a rapid rollout of significant remote work infrastructure. That infrastructure was called in...

ASSURE Aviation Cyber Security Testing

We've long been supporters and champions of a formalised approach to Aviation Cyber Security Testing. Our research and blogging has taken us on an interesting journey regarding airside and landside security, mapping attack surfaces and explaining how systems work and interact. Speaking and...

Attacking the VM Worker Process

In the past year we invested a lot of time making Hyper-V research more accessible to everyone. Our first blog post, “First Steps in Hyper-V Research”, describes the tools and setup for debugging the hypervisor and examines the interesting attack surfaces of the virtualization stack components. W...

Attacking the VM Worker Process

In the past year we invested a lot of time making Hyper-V research more accessible to everyone. Our first blog post, “First Steps in Hyper-V Research”, describes the tools and setup for debugging the hypervisor and examines the interesting attack surfaces of the virtualization stack components. W...

Free Cynet Threat Assessment for Mid-sized and Large Organizations

If you cannot see what’s happening in your network, your ability to make smart security decisions will suffer. Many vendors offer threat assessment options, but they usually require an investment of time and resources. One vendor out there – Cynet – is offering a no-cost threat assessment to...

Free Cynet Threat Assessment for Mid-sized and Large Organizations

If you cannot see what’s happening in your network, your ability to make smart security decisions will suffer. Many vendors offer threat assessment options, but they usually require an investment of time and resources. One vendor out there – Cynet – is offering a no-cost threat assessment to...

Advanced Breach Protection Demystified – Untold Truths On Security Beyond AV

Doing business in today's connected world means dealing with a continually evolving threat landscape. With potential losses due to downtime following a breach, plus valuable client and proprietary information at risk, most organizations realize they cannot afford to be complacent. This puts extra...

Advanced Breach Protection Demystified – Untold Truths On Security Beyond AV

Doing business in today's connected world means dealing with a continually evolving threat landscape. With potential losses due to downtime following a breach, plus valuable client and proprietary information at risk, most organizations realize they cannot afford to be complacent. This puts extra...