Mind the Gap: How Surface Command Tackles Asset Visibility in Attack Surface Management

“Only 17% of organizations can clearly identify and inventory a majority 95% or more of their assets.” - Gartner Imagine the scenario: your organization has been exposed to a new zero-day vulnerability. You are responsible for Threat & Vulnerability Management TVM, you have asked your IT departme...

CVE-2024-10526

Rapid7 Velociraptor MSI Installer versions below 0.73.3 suffer from a vulnerability whereby it creates the installation directory with WRITEDACL permission to the BUILTIN\Users group. This allows local users who are not administrators to grant themselves the Full Control permission on...

CVE-2024-10526 Rapid7 Velociraptor Local Privilege Escalation In Windows Velociraptor Service

Rapid7 Velociraptor MSI Installer versions below 0.73.3 suffer from a vulnerability whereby it creates the installation directory with WRITEDACL permission to the BUILTIN\Users group. This allows local users who are not administrators to grant themselves the Full Control permission on...

CVE-2024-10526 Rapid7 Velociraptor Local Privilege Escalation In Windows Velociraptor Service

Rapid7 Velociraptor MSI Installer versions below 0.73.3 suffer from a vulnerability whereby it creates the installation directory with WRITEDACL permission to the BUILTIN\Users group. This allows local users who are not administrators to grant themselves the Full Control permission on...

CVE-2024-10526

The provided data confirms CVE-2024-10526 affects Rapid7 Velociraptor MSI Installer before version 0.73.3. The issue stems from the installer creating the installation directory with WRITE_DACL permissions for BUILTIN\Users, enabling non-admin local users to grant themselves Full Control on Veloc...

Rapid7 Velociraptor MSI Installer 安全漏洞

Rapid7 Velociraptor MSI Installer is a unique, advanced, open source endpoint monitoring, digital forensics, and cyber response platform from Rapid7 USA. A security vulnerability exists in Rapid7 Velociraptor MSI Installer prior to version 0.73.3 that originates from the execution of arbitrary co...

Investigating a SharePoint Compromise: IR Tales from the Field

Executive summary Rapid7’s Incident Response team recently investigated a Microsoft Exchange service account with domain administrator privileges. Our investigation uncovered an attacker who accessed a server without authorization and moved laterally across the network, compromising the entire...

Fortinet FortiManager CVE-2024-47575 Exploited in Zero-Day Attacks

On Wednesday, October 23, 2024, security company Fortinet published an advisory on CVE-2024-47575, a critical zero-day vulnerability affecting their FortiManager network management solution. The vulnerability arises from a missing authentication for a critical function CWE-306 in the FortiManager...

Root Access for Data Control: A DEF CON IoT Village Story

Every year, Rapid7 is a presenter at DEF CON’s IoT Village, sharing in-depth insight and expertise into the hacking of all things Internet of Things. This year, our perennial IoT hacking presenter, Principal Security Researcher, IoT, Deral Heiland, along with Rapid7 pentest team members, showed...

What’s New in Rapid7 Products & Services: Q3 2024 in Review

This was one of the most exciting quarters at Rapid7 as we announced the next chapter in our mission to give customers command of their attack surface: the Rapid7 Command Platform, our unified threat exposure and detection and response platform. With this, we introduced two exciting new products:...

Proactively Securing Cloud Workloads in the CI/CD Pipeline with Rapid7 and Azure DevOps

As organizations continue to embrace cloud-native development practices, the need for integrated security solutions that seamlessly fit into existing DevOps environments has become more pressing than ever. We recognize this critical need and have added new integration for InsightCloudSec ICS and...

Rapid7 Recognized in Forrester’s 2024 Attack Surface Management (ASM) Wave Report

This week, Rapid7 was recognized as a Contender in Forrester’s report, The Forrester WaveTM: Attack Surface Management ASM Solutions Q3 2024. We’re proud to have been selected for inclusion in the report, which to us reflects a continued dedication to enabling customers to: Monitor 100% of their...

Expanding the Security Horizon: Introducing Rapid7 MDR for the Extended Ecosystem

As the cybersecurity landscape gets more complex, the stakes for keeping organizations safe have never been higher. Security teams are tasked with keeping ahead of new ransomware groups, rapidly evolving adversary tactics, and their dynamic attack surface as their business grows. Security...

High-Risk Vulnerabilities in Common Enterprise Technologies

Rapid7 is warning customers about several high-risk vulnerabilities in common enterprise technologies that are attractive potential attack targets for both state-sponsored and financially motivated adversaries. We are advising customers to prioritize remediation for these issues on an expedited...

Rapid7 Introduces Vector Command, a New Managed Service for Continuous Red Teaming

Rapid7 is delighted to announce the launch of Vector Command, a continuous red teaming managed service designed to assess your external attack surface and identify gaps in the security defenses on an ongoing basis. Following the launch of Surface Command and Exposure Command in August, Vector...

The Growing Importance of Exposure Management: Our Key Insights from Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Security Operations, 2024

The Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Security Operations, 2024 was published in late July, and is an interesting look at the dynamic nature of both the threat landscape and the diverse range of technologies that security & risk management SRM professionals use to safeguard their organizations...

Ransomware Groups Demystified: Lynx Ransomware

As part of our research and tracking of threats, Rapid7 Labs is actively monitoring new and upcoming threat groups and the ransomware domain is known for having a large number of them. In the Ransomware Radar Report, Rapid7 Labs shared the observation that in the first half of 2024, 21 new or...

Bug Left Some Windows PCs Dangerously Unpatched

Microsoft Corp. today released updates to fix at least 79 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and related software, including multiple flaws that are already showing up in active attacks. Microsoft also corrected a critical bug that has caused some Windows 10 PCs to remain...

Rapid7 Named a Leader in IDC MarketScape: Worldwide SIEM for SMB and Enterprise

Rapid7 is excited to share we have been recognized as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide SIEM for SMB 2024 Vendor Assessment doc US52038824, September 2024 and the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide SIEM for Enterprise 2024 Vendor Assessment doc US51541324, September 2024. We want to thank our...

CVE-2024-40766: Critical Improper Access Control Vulnerability Affecting SonicWall Devices

On August 22, 2024, security firm SonicWall published an advisory on CVE-2024-40766, a critical improper access control vulnerability affecting SonicOS, the operating system that runs on the company’s physical and virtual firewalls. While CVE-2024-40766 was not known to be exploited in the wild a...