Rapid7’s Data-Centric Approach to AI in Belfast

Authored by Stuart Millar and Ryan Wilson. Rapid7 has expanded significantly in Belfast since establishing a presence back in 2014, resulting in the company's largest R&D hub outside the US with over 350 people spread across eight floors in our Chichester Street office. There is a wide range of...

Rapid7 Recognized by Newsweek as one of ‘America’s Greatest Workplaces for Diversity for 2024’.

On December 13th, Newsweek Magazine published their list of ‘America’s Greatest Workplaces for Diversity for 2024’. Like many companies today, Rapid7 recognizes the positive impact diversity plays in driving organizational success, attracting and retaining exceptional talent, and creating positiv...

Genie Aladdin Connect Retrofit Garage Door Opener: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Rapid7, Inc. Rapid7 discovered vulnerabilities in Aladdin Connect retrofit kit garage door opener and Android mobile application produced by Genie. The affected products are: Aladdin Garage door smart retrofit kit, Model ALDCM Android Mobile application ALADDIN Connect, Version 5.65 Build 2075...

Velociraptor 0.7.1 Release

Written by Dr. Michael Cohen Sigma Support, ETW Multiplexing, Local Encrypted Storage and New VQL Capabilities Highlight the Last Release of 2023 Rapid7 is excited to announce that version 0.7.1 of Velociraptor is live and available for download. There are several new features and capabilities th...

There’s One Last Gift Under the Tree, It’s Hands-On IoT!

It’s the holiday season and since we’re in a giving mood we thought we’d surprise our loyal readers with a fun, hands-on hardware exercise to enjoy during some well-earned downtime. But first, a little background. Every year Rapid7 has a pretty solid presence at DefCon in Las Vegas. This year was...

CVE-2023-7102

Use of a Third Party library produced a vulnerability in Barracuda Networks Inc. Barracuda ESG Appliance which allowed Parameter Injection.This issue affected Barracuda ESG Appliance, from 5.1.3.001 through 9.2.1.001, until Barracuda removed the vulnerable logic...

What’s New in Rapid7 Products & Services: 2023 Year in Review

Throughout 2023 Rapid7 has made investments across the Insight Platform to further our mission of providing security teams with the tools to proactively anticipate imminent risk, prevent breaches earlier, and respond faster to threats. In this blog you'll find a review of our top releases from th...

NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 Updates: What You Need to Know About The Most Recent Patch Release (5.1.1)

On November 7th, the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST issued an update to SP 800-53, a NIST-curated catalog of controls that organizations can implement to effectively manage security and privacy risk. In this blog we’ll cover the new and updated controls within patch release...

Exploit for Missing Authorization in Zoneminder

Zoneminder Unauthenticated RCE via Snapshots CVE-2023-26035...

Living our Values and Leveraging Diverse Skill Sets: How Jonathan Atwood Built a Successful Career as a Customer Advisor at Rapid7

At Rapid7, our Customer Advisors play a pivotal role at ensuring our customers understand their threat landscape – and feel confident in their security programs. By collaborating across various internal teams, strengthening customer relationships, and proactively seeking solutions and advocating...

CVE-2023-49103 - Critical Information Disclosure in ownCloud Graph API

Rapid7 is responding to CVE-2023-49103, an unauthenticated information disclosure vulnerability impacting ownCloud. Background ownCloud is a file sharing platform designed for enterprise environments. On November 21, 2023, ownCloud disclosed CVE-2023-49103, an unauthenticated information disclosu...

Rapid7 Takes Next Step in AI Innovation with New AI-Powered Threat Detections

Digital transformation has created immense opportunity to generate new revenue streams, better engage with customers and drive operational efficiency. A decades-long transition to cloud as the de-facto delivery model of choice has delivered undeniable value to the business landscape. But any chan...

Building our Team in Prague: Meet Martin Votruba

From developing driver-assistance software for a luxury car brand to jumping on board an NFT startup, Martin Votruba, Lead Software Engineer, is not one to shy away from a challenge. In September of 2023, joined Rapid7 as the first hire in its new Prague office. Martin is leveraging Rapid7’s...

Metasploit Wrap-up

Enhancements and features 2 18548 from zeroSteiner - Updates the admin/http/tomcatghostcat module to follow newer library conventions. 18552 from adfoster-r7 - Adds support for Ruby 3.3.0-preview3. Bugs fixed 5 18448 from HynekPetrak - Fixes and updates the...

Rapid7 Introduces AI-driven Cloud Anomaly Detection

It’s that time of year again! AWS Re:Invent, Amazon Web Services’ annual mega-conference will soon kick off in Las Vegas and there are sure to be a ton of new cloud security innovations unveiled throughout the week. From a Rapid7 perspective, we’re launching an exciting new capability - Cloud...

Rapid7 Introduces AI-driven Cloud Anomaly Detection

It’s that time of year again! AWS Re:Invent, Amazon Web Services’ annual mega-conference will soon kick off in Las Vegas and there are sure to be a ton of new cloud security innovations unveiled throughout the week. From a Rapid7 perspective, we’re launching an exciting new capability - Cloud...

Manage Enterprise Risk at Scale with a Unified, Holistic Approach

The rapid pace of technological change and the attendant rise of cyber threats in both speed and number leave most organizations at a disadvantage. Historically, many firms faced this challenge simply by purchasing more technology in the hopes that the latest threat protection software would keep...

CVE-2023-5950 Rapid7 Velociraptor Reflected XSS

This advisory covers a specific issue identified in Velociraptor and disclosed by a security code review. We want to thank Mathias Kujala for working with the Velociraptor team to identify and rectify this issue. It has been fixed as of Version 0.7.0-4, released November 6, 2023. CVSS · HIGH ·...

NEW RESEARCH: Artificial intelligence and Machine Learning Can Be Used to Stop DAST Attacks Before they Start

Within cloud security, one of the most prevalent tools is dynamic application security testing, or DAST. DAST is a critical component of a robust application security framework, identifying vulnerabilities in your cloud applications either pre or post deployment that can be remediated for a...

GhostLocker - A “Work In Progress” RaaS

This post was also authored by Anna Širokova Executive Summary In recent years, there has been a noticeable uptick in threat actors venturing into the realm of Ransom-as-a-Service RaaS. Some have emerged as significant threats, while others have faded into obscurity. What makes the current...