Weak Passwords and Compromised Accounts: Key Findings from the Blue Report 2025

As security professionals, it's easy to get caught up in a race to counter the latest advanced adversary techniques. Yet the most impactful attacksoften aren't from cutting-edge exploits, but from cracked credentials and compromised accounts. Despite widespread awareness of this threat vector,...

Coward: toward Practical Proactive Federated Backdoor Defense Via Collision-Based Watermark

Backdoor detection is currently the mainstream defense against backdoor attacks in federated learning FL, where malicious clients upload poisoned updates that compromise the global model and undermine the reliability of FL deployments. Existing backdoor detection techniques fall into two...

Game Theory Meets LLM and Agentic AI: Reimagining Cybersecurity for the Age of Intelligent Threats

Protecting cyberspace requires not only advanced tools but also a shift in how we reason about threats, trust, and autonomy. Traditional cybersecurity methods rely on manual responses and brittle heuristics. To build proactive and intelligent defense systems, we need integrated theoretical...

Learn how to build an AI-powered, unified SOC in new Microsoft e-book

The sheer volume of cyberattacks continues to increase at a breathtaking scale worldwide, with customers facing more than 600 million cybercriminal and nation-state attacks every day.1 To stem the growing tide of malicious cyber activity takes a commitment from all of us—individuals from operatio...

6 Steps to 24/7 In-House SOC Success

Hackers never sleep, so why should enterprise defenses? Threat actors prefer to target businesses during off-hours. That's when they can count on fewer security personnel monitoring systems, delaying response and remediation. When retail giant Marks & Spencer experienced a security event over...

MalGEN: a Generative Agent Framework for Modeling Malicious Software in Cybersecurity

The dual use nature of Large Language Models LLMs presents a growing challenge in cybersecurity. While LLM enhances automation and reasoning for defenders, they also introduce new risks, particularly their potential to be misused for generating evasive, AI crafted malware. Despite this emerging...

Using a Mythic agent to optimize penetration testing

Introduction The way threat actors use post-exploitation frameworks in their attacks is a topic we frequently discuss. It's not just about analysis of artifacts for us, though. Our company's deep expertise means we can study these tools to implement best practices in penetration testing. This hel...

TrojanDam: Detection-Free Backdoor Defense in Federated Learning through Proactive Model Robustification Utilizing OOD Data

Federated learning FL systems allow decentralized data-owning clients to jointly train a global model through uploading their locally trained updates to a centralized server. The property of decentralization enables adversaries to craft carefully designed backdoor updates to make the global model...

ORing IAP-420

RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to invoke commands to compromise the device via the management interface. 2. RECOMMENDED PRACTICES CISA recommends users take defensive measures to minimize the risk of exploitation of this these...

The Future of Network Security: Automated Internal and External Pentesting

In today's rapidly evolving threat landscape, safeguarding your organization against cyberattacks is more critical than ever. Traditional penetration testing pentesting, while effective, often falls short due to its high costs, resource requirements, and infrequent implementation. Automated...

Expanded SOC Coverage Into AWS Environments with Rapid7 MXDR

Co-athored by Mikayla Wyman and Ryan Blanchard As organizations increasingly rely on AWS for scalability and innovation, the complexity of securing these environments grows. AWS offers a robust set of native services and a comprehensive ecosystem, but managing security signals and responding to...

Qualys VMDR Rated as the Only Leader and Outperformer by Independent Analyst Firm for the Second Consecutive Year

Qualys VMDR received the highest possible scores for risk-based assessment, cloud-native and serverless function scanning, and flexibility of deployment, among 20 vendors evaluated in this report. As the threat landscape evolves, vulnerability management remains a cornerstone of security...

Key Takeaways From The Take Command Summit: Unlocking Security Success

As cybersecurity threats continue to evolve, so must our defenses. The recent Rapid7 Take Command Summit provided invaluable insights into preparing for, responding to, and recovering from ransomware attacks. Here are three essential takeaways from the session, "Before, During, & After Ransomware...

Takeaways From The Take Command Summit: Navigating Modern SOC Challenges

At our recent Take Command summit, experts delved into the pressing challenges faced by SOC teams. With 2,365 more data breaches in 2023 than in 2022 74% of which were a direct result of cyber attacks, the need for robust security operations has never been greater. Key takeaways from the 25 minut...

Imperva Protects Against Critical PHP Vulnerability CVE-2024-4577

In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, staying ahead of vulnerabilities is crucial for safeguarding sensitive information and maintaining the integrity of digital assets. Recently, a critical vulnerability– identified as CVE-2024-4577 with an initial CVSS score of 9.8 – was discovered i...

ISPM + ITDR: Proactive Cyber Defense in the AI Era

In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, staying ahead of malicious actors requires a multifaceted approach...

Expert-Led Webinar - Uncovering Latest DDoS Tactics and Learn How to Fight Back

In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, the threat of Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attacks looms more significant than ever. As these cyber threats grow in sophistication, understanding and countering them becomes crucial for any business seeking to protect its online presence. To...

De-risk the Software Supply Chain by Expanding Unparalleled Detection Coverage With Qualys VMDR and Software Composition Analysis

QIDs/CVEs When it comes to cybersecurity, speed is key in getting an edge over attackers. But when you consider that vulnerabilities weaponize 24 days faster than then they are remediated on average, cybersecurity stakeholders have a lot of catching up to do. While there are many ways defenders c...

Hive Pro Announces Launch of Alliance Partner Program in North America for MSPs and VARs

Herndon, VA – 01 April 2024 – Hive Pro, a pioneer vendor in Threat Exposure Management, announced the formal launch of its North America Alliance Partner Program for Managed Service Providers MSP and Value-Added Resellers VARs. This initiative aims to empower Managed Service Providers MSPs and...

CanaryTokenScanner - Script Designed To Proactively Identify Canary Tokens Within Microsoft Office Documents And Acrobat Reader PDF (docx, xlsx, pptx, pdf)

Detecting Canary Tokens and Suspicious URLs inMicrosoft Office, Acrobat Reader PDF and Zip Files Introduction In the dynamic realm of cybersecurity, vigilance and proactive defense are key. Malicious actors often leverage Microsoft Office files and Zip archives, embedding covert URLs or macros to...