Rapid7 Announces Release of New tCell Amazon CloudFront Agent

Cloud-native approaches to building, hosting, and delivering web applications are growing rapidly. Content delivery networks CDNs such as Amazon CloudFront are on the rise, pushing content closer to end users to improve the performance of web applications. To protect web applications security tea...

What's New in DivvyCloud by Rapid7: February 2021 Feature Releases

February was another busy month. Internally, as we work to improve our processes, we are still committed to maintaining our frequent release cadence. Our releases, both minor and major, ensure that customers have access to valuable improvements, features, expanded support capabilities, and bug...

Rapid7’s InsightIDR Enables Detection And Response to Microsoft Exchange Zero-Day

Starting February 27, 2021, Rapid7 has observed a notable increase in the exploitation of Microsoft Exchange through existing detections in InsightIDR’s Attacker Behavior Analytics ABA. The Managed Detection and Response MDR identified multiple, related compromises in the past 72 hours. In most...

Indiscriminate Exploitation of Microsoft Exchange Servers (CVE-2021-24085)

The following blog post was co-authored by Andrew Christian and Brendan Watters. Beginning Feb. 27, 2021, Rapid7’s Managed Detection and Response MDR team has observed a notable increase in the automated exploitation of vulnerable Microsoft Exchange servers to upload a webshell granting attackers...

Celebrating Black History Today and Every Day

Black History Month is a time for every person, from all different backgrounds to honor and celebrate the achievements of Black and African Americans in the U.S. and their impact on world history. In honor of Black History Month, we would like to recognize some of our amazing team members who hav...

Why More Teams are Shifting Security Analytics to the Cloud This Year

As the threat landscape continues to evolve in size and complexity, so does the security skills and resource gap, leaving organizations both understaffed and overwhelmed. An ESG study found that 63% of organizations say security is more difficult than it was two years ago. Teams cite the growing...

CVE-2021-22652: Advantech iView Missing Authentication RCE (FIXED)

Advantech iView versions prior to 5.7.03.6112 suffer from an instance of "CWE-306: Missing Authentication For Critical Function." This vulnerability CVE-2021-22652 has a CVSSv3 score of 9.8, which is usually CRITICAL, since it effectively allows anyone who can connect to the iView server to run...

SOAR Tools: What to Look for When Investing in Security Automation Tech

Security orchestration and automation SOAR refers to a collection of software solutions and tools that organizations can leverage to streamline security operations in three key areas: threat and vulnerability management, incident response, and security-operations automation. From a single platfor...

Advantech iView Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution

This module exploits an unauthenticated configuration change combined with an unauthenticated file write primitive, leading to an arbitrary file write that allows for remote code execution as the user running iView, which is typically NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM. This issue was demonstrated in the...

Exploit for Command Injection in Rapid7 Metasploit

CVE-2020-7384 This is a small exploit in bash which I had mad...

CVE-2021-20016

A SQL-Injection vulnerability in the SonicWall SSLVPN SMA100 product allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to perform SQL query to access username password and other session related information. This vulnerability impacts SMA100 build version 10.x. Recent assessments: wvu-r7 at February 05, 20...

SonicWall SMA 100 Series 10.x Firmware Zero-Day Vulnerability

A SQL-Injection vulnerability in the SonicWall SSLVPN SMA100 product allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to perform SQL query to access username password and other session related information. This vulnerability impacts SMA100 build version 10.x. Recent assessments: wvu-r7 at February 04, 20...

Rapid7 Acquires Leading Kubernetes Security Provider, Alcide

Organizations around the globe continue to embrace the flexibility, speed, and agility of the cloud. Those that have adopted it are able to accelerate innovation and deliver real value to their customers faster than ever before. However, while the cloud can bring a tremendous amount of benefits t...

FannyBMP or DementiaWheel Detection Registry Check

This module searches for the Fanny.bmp worm related reg keys. fannybmp is a worm that exploited zero day vulns more specifically, the LNK Exploit CVE-2010-2568. Which allowed it to spread even if USB Autorun was turned off. This is the same exploit that was used in StuxNet. Module Options msf use...

Finding Results at the Intersection of Security and Engineering

As vice president and head of global security at ActiveCampaign, I’m fortunate to be able to draw on a multitude of experiences and successes in my career. I started in general network security, where I was involved in pen testing and security research. I worked at several multibillion-dollar Saa...

You Can Now Buy (And Renew) Five More Rapid7 Products Through AWS Marketplace

Purchasing software through AWS Marketplace has to be one of the most under-appreciated perks of being an Amazon Web Services AWS customer. For starters, products you purchase through Marketplace automatically show up on your next AWS bill, which can really simplify your procurement process. In...

InsightIDR: 2020 Highlights and What’s Ahead in 2021

As we kick off 2021 here at Rapid7, we wanted to take a minute to reflect on 2020, highlight some key InsightIDR product investments we don’t want you to miss, and take a look ahead at where our team sees detection and response going this year. Rapid7 detection and response 2020 highlights Whenev...

Update on SolarWinds Supply-Chain Attack: SUNSPOT and New Malware Family Associations

This update is a continuation of our previous coverage of the SolarWinds supply-chain attack that was discovered by FireEye in December 2020. As of Jan. 11, 2021, new research has been published that expands the security community’s understanding of the breadth and depth of the SolarWinds attack...

Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities in Secomea, Moxa, and HMS eWon VPNs

Security researchers at Claroty published details on multiple pre-auth remote code execution vulnerabilities affecting virtual private network VPN implementations primarily used to provide remote access to operational technology OT networks. The vulnerabilities could allow unauthenticated attacke...

Happy HaXmas from the Rapid7 Team!

Happy HaXmas, everyone! This has been quite the year, but we’re thrilled that we’re able to keep up our favorite holiday tradition of our annual HaXmas blog series, which features holiday stories, hacking wins from the year, tips and tricks, and general festivity to keep you entertained during th...