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NSIS Abuse and sRDI Shellcode: Anatomy of the Winos 4.0 Campaign
Co-authored byAnna Širokova and Ivan Feigl Executive summary Rapid7 has been tracking a malware campaign that uses fake software installers disguised as popular apps like VPN and QQBrowser—to deliver Winos v4.0, a hard-to-detect malware that runs entirely in memory and gives attackers remote...
Fortinet Firewalls Hit with New Zero-Day Attack, Older Data Leak
Executive summary Rapid7 is investigating two separate events affecting Fortinet firewall customers: Zero-day exploitation of CVE-2024-55591, an authentication bypass vulnerability in FortiOS and FortiProxy disclosed earlier this week. Successful exploitation could allow remote attackers to gain...
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 01/12/24
New module content 1 Windows Gather Mikrotik Winbox "Keep Password" Credentials Extractor Author: Pasquale 'sid' Fiorillo Type: Post Pull request: 18604 contributed by siddolo Path: windows/gather/credentials/winboxsettings Description: This pull request introduces a new post module to extract th...
CVE-2022-4261: Rapid7 Nexpose Update Validation Issue (FIXED)
On November 14, 2022, Rapid7's product engineering team discovered that the mechanism in Nexpose and InsightVM used to validate the source of an update file was unreliable. This failure, which involved the internal cryptographic validation of received updates, was designated as CVE-2022-4261, and...
[Security Nation] Chris Levendis and Lisa Olson on Cloud CVEs
!\Security Nation\ Chris Levendis and Lisa Olson on Cloud CVEshttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2022/09/securitynationlogo.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, Jen and Tod chat with Chris Levendis of MITRE and Lisa Olson of Microsoft about assigning CVE IDs for vulnerabilities affecting...
Energize Your Incident Response and Vulnerability Management With Crowdsourced Automation Workflows
It’s no secret that most organizations need to dramatically improve their incident detection and response and vulnerability management VM programs. How many major security breaches could organizations avert if they could detect and address them at the start, when they’re still just minor incident...
Kill chains: Part 1→Strategic and operational value
It really is a good thing The term “kill chain” sounds extremely harsh. Almost as if after something is killed, it gets moved down the chain to be killed again. How dramatic! Indeed, the original definition was to describe how an enemy combatant of the military might attack; that is, the steps th...
How to Address the Current Complexity and Chaos of Cloud IAM
Cloudy judgement Combining the separate themes of cloud technology and identity access management IAM might seem like an oxymoron in today’s endlessly scaling environments, but there’s really no going back in the box when it comes to the promise of cloud in driving innovation. The fact is, securi...
CVE-2021-26908 and CVE-2021-26909: Automox Agent Information Disclosure (FIXED)
Rapid7 researcher Danny Jordan discovered two vulnerabilities in the Automox Agent for Windows and macOS, which could result in information disclosure issues involving the Automox infrastructure. CVE-2021-26908 describes a vulnerability where Automox Agent improperly logs sensitive information on...
Metasploit Wrap-Up 01/16/2026
Persistence, dMSA Abuse & RCE Goodies This week, we have received a lot of contributions from the community, such as h00die, Chocapikk and countless others, which is greatly appreciated. This week’s modules and improvements in Metasploit Framework range from new modules, such as dMSA Abuse...
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 07/26/2024
New module content 3 Magento XXE Unserialize Arbitrary File Read Authors: Heyder and Sergey Temnikov Type: Auxiliary Pull request: 19304 contributed by heyder Path: gather/magentoxxecve202434102 AttackerKB reference: CVE-2024-34102 Description: This adds an auxiliary module for an XXE which resul...
Fetch Payloads: A Shorter Path from Command Injection to Metasploit Session
Over the last year, two-thirds of the exploit modules added to Metasploit Framework have targeted command injection vulnerabilities CWE-94: Improper Control of Generation of Code. In the process of helping new and existing open-source contributors learn how to use Metasploit’s command stager...
[Security Nation] Jeremi Gosney on the Psychology of Password Hygiene
!\Security Nation\ Jeremi Gosney on the Psychology of Password Hygienehttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2022/10/securitynationlogo-1.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, Jen and Tod talk to renowned password security expert Jeremi Gosney about how we are all guilty of bad password...
The Ransomware Task Force: A New Approach to Fighting Ransomware
In the past few months, we’ve seen ransomware attacks shut down healthcare across Ireland, fuel delivery across parts of the US, and meat processing across Australia, Canada and the US. We’ve seen demands of payments in the tens of millions of dollars. We’re also continuing to see trends around...
Rapid7 Releases New Industry Cyber-Exposure Report (ICER): Fortune 500
Today, Rapid7 just released the first in our all-new Industry Cyber-Exposure Report ICER series. For those of you who have been following our research over the past few years, you may immediately suspect us of unloading another 100+ page tome of internet-based findings around the internet—but not...
MDR Vendor Must-Haves, Part 1: Deep Observation of Real-Time Endpoint Data
This blog post is part of an ongoing series about evaluating Managed Detection and Response MDR providers. For more insights, check out our guide, “10 Things Your MDR Service Must Do.” Assessing Managed Detection and Response MDR vendors is no easy task. However, evaluating each based on...
Principles for personal information security legislation
It goes without saying that the 117th US Congress has a lot to get done and many legitimate priorities are competing for finite legislative attention. Cybersecurity will be in this mix. In the wake of the SolarWinds attack, President-elect Biden issued a statement emphasizing that his...
PSA: Increase in RDP Attacks Means It's Time to Mind Your RDPs and Qs
This week, Rapid7 Managed Detection and Response’s MDR intrepid investigators identified an increase in RDP attacks targeting RDP servers without multi-factor authentication enabled. Given that a fair number of folks are still working remotely, it’s no wonder that attackers continue to seek out a...
NICER Protocol Deep Dive: Internet Exposure of VNC
Welcome to the NICER Protocol Deep Dive blog series! When we started researching what all was out on the internet way back in January, we had no idea we'd end up with a hefty, 137-page tome of a research report. The sheer length of such a thing might put off folks who might otherwise learn a thin...
Metasploit Wrap-Up 05/16/2025
New modules for everyone This week’s release is packed with new module content. We have RCE modules for Car Rental System 1.0, Wordpress plugins SureTriggers, User Registration and Membership. We also have a persistence module for LINQPad software and an auxiliary module for POWERCOM UPSMON PRO. ...
Metasploit Wrap-Up 04/25/2025
AD CS workflow improvement with new PKCS12 features Given the increasing popularity of AD CS misconfiguration exploitation in recent years, Metasploit has been consistently improving its capabilities in this area. This week’s release introduces a new certs command to the msfconsole, enabling user...
Authentication Bypasses in MOVEit Transfer and MOVEit Gateway
On June 25, 2024, Progress Software published information on two new vulnerabilities in MOVEit Transfer and MOVEit Gateway: CVE-2024-5806, a critical authentication bypass affecting the MOVEit Transfer SFTP service in a default configuration; and CVE-2024-5805, a critical SFTP-associated...
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up
Possible Web Service Removal Metasploit has support for running with a local database, or from a remote web service which can be initialized with msfdb init --component webservice. Future versions of Metasploit Framework may remove the msfdb remote webservice. Users that leverage this functionali...
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up
Nothing but .NET? Smashery continues to… smash it by updating our .NET assembly execution module. The original module allowed users to run a .NET exe as a thread within a process they created on a remote host. Smashery’s improvements let users run the executable within a thread of the process...
Year in Review: Rapid7 Cybersecurity Research
Welcome to 2023, a year that sounds so futuristic it is hard to believe it is real. But real it is, and make no mistake, threat actors are still out there, working hard to get into networks the world over. So, at the start of the new year, I am reminded of two particular phrases: Those who do not...
A December to Remember — Or, How We Improved InsightAppSec in Q4 in the Midst of Log4Shell
Ho, ho, holy cow — what a wild way to wrap up the year that was. Thousands of flights were cancelled during Christmas week, nearly every holiday party became a super-spreader event, and we lost a legend in Betty White. In our neck of the woods, Log4Shell has been dominating the conversation for...
Rapid7 Statement on the New Standard Contractual Clauses for International Transfers of Personal Data
Context: On June 4, 2021, the European Commission published new standard contractual clauses “New SCCs". Under the General Data Protection Regulation “GDPR", transfers of personal data to countries outside of the European Economic Area EEA must meet certain conditions. The New SCCs are an approve...
Cloud Security Glossary: Key Terms and Definitions
When navigating the complexities of the public cloud, it’s easy to get lost in the endless acronyms, industry jargon, and vendor-specific terms. From K8s to IaC to Shift Left, it can be helpful to have a map to navigate the nuances of this emerging segment of the market. That’s why a few cloud...
Rapid7 Releases New Industry Cyber-Exposure Report (ICER): Deutsche Börse Prime Standard
Today, Rapid7 released the fourth in our Industry Cyber-Exposure Report ICER series. For those of you who have been following our research over the past few years, you may immediately suspect us of unloading another 100+ page tome of internet-based findings around the internet—but not so fast!...
Supreme Court narrows CFAA
The US Supreme Court issued its long-awaited-by-cybersecurity-nerds opinion on Van Buren v. United States. The case examined whether it was a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act CFAA for a police officer to access a law enforcement database to obtain information, which the officer then...
What’s New in InsightAppSec and tCell: Q1 2021 in Review
2021 is off and running! The big question on the corporate world’s mind is, of course, “What will work life look like at the end of 2021?” With vaccines rolling out around the world, another shift is set to take place around when and where people put in their hours. As offices slowly start to...
Take the Full-Stack Approach to Securing Your Modern Attack Surface
A growing remote-work culture demands a graduation in the approach to security. It’s time to test, monitor, secure, and extend to the application layer. A modern methodology for vulnerability management VM is vital for organizations looking to minimize attack surfaces by prioritizing potential...
Zero-Day Exploitation Targeting Palo Alto Networks Firewall Management Interfaces
On Friday, November 8, 2024, cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks PAN published a bulletin PAN-SA-2024-0015 advising firewall customers to take steps to secure their firewall management interfaces amid unverified rumors of a possible new vulnerability. Rapid7 threat intelligence teams have also...
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:...
Stories from the SOC Part 2: MSIX Installer Utilizes Telegram Bot to Execute IDAT Loader
Rapid7’s Managed Detection and Response MDR team continuously monitors our customers' environments, identifying emerging threats and developing new detections. In August 2023, Rapid7 identified a new malware loader named the IDAT Loader. Malware loaders are a type of malicious software designed t...
When One Door Opens, Keep It Open: A New Tool for Physical Security Testing
As penetration testers, we spend most of our time working with different types of networks, applications, and hardware devices. Physical security is another fun area we get to work in during physical social engineering penetration tests and red team engagements, which sometimes includes attempts ...
How to Achieve and Maintain Continuous Cloud Compliance
This blog is part of an ongoing series sharing key takeaways from Rapid7’s 2020 Cloud Security Executive Summit. Interested in participating in the next summit on Tuesday, March 9? Register here! There are two things that make data a hot topic. First, keeping track of your organization’s sheer...
Introducing Enhanced Endpoint Telemetry (EET) in InsightIDR
Rapid7 detection and response customers have access to, and insights from, our experts and research driving the industry forward. This includes a robust library of out-of-the box detections curated from our global managed SOC team, plus insights from Rapid7’s global threat intelligence network...
How InsightVM Helps You Save Time and Prove Value
For many security teams, vulnerability risk management can feel like an endless climb. The truth is, no IT environment will ever be fully free of cyber-risk. That said, there are simple, attainable steps you can take right away to achieve an acceptable level of risk for your organization with the...
2021 Detection and Response Planning, Part 1: Rapid7’s Jeffrey Gardner Breaks Down How CISOs Should Approach Security Planning for the New Year
In this four-part series, we’ll explore key considerations and strategies for 2021 detection and response planning, and ways InsightIDR, Managed Detection and Response Services MDR, and InsightConnect can help drive increased efficiency and future-proof your SOC going into the new year. Despite a...
Rapid7 Fills Gaps in the CVE Assessment Process with AI-Generated Vulnerability Scoring in Exposure Command
NIST released an update highlighting that there would be delays in adding information on newly published CVEs this is also discussed in detail in our blog post from March of 2024. Due to resource constraints and an inability to keep up with the volume of newly-disclosed vulnerabilities, NVD shift...
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 12/20/2024
New module content 4 GameOverlay Privilege Escalation and Container Escape Authors: bwatters-r7, g1vi, gardnerapp, and h00die Type: Exploit Pull request: 19460 contributed by gardnerapp Path: linux/local/gameoverlayprivesc AttackerKB reference: CVE-2023-2640 Description: Adds a module for...
Modular Java Backdoor Dropped in Cleo Exploitation Campaign
Many thanks to Rapid7 MDR and incident response teams for their contributions to this analysis. While investigating incidents related to Cleo software exploitation, Rapid7 Labs and MDR observed a novel, multi-stage attack that deploys an encoded Java Archive JAR payload. Our investigation reveale...
New “CleverSoar” Installer Targets Chinese and Vietnamese Users
CleverSoar Installer Used to Deploy Nidhogg Rootkit and Winos4.0 Framework Against Targeted Users In early November, Rapid7 Labs identified a new, highly evasive malware installer, 'CleverSoar,' targeting Chinese and Vietnamese-speaking victims. CleverSoar is designed to deploy and protect multip...
What’s New in Rapid7 Products & Services: Q1 2024 in Review
We kicked off 2024 with a continued focus on bringing security professionals which if you're reading this blog, is likely you! the tools and functionality needed to anticipate risks, pinpoint threats, and respond faster with confidence. Below we’ve highlighted some key releases and updates from...
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 1/05/2024
New module content 2 Splunk raw Server Info Disclosure Authors: KOF2002, h00die, and n00bhaxor Type: Auxiliary Pull request: 18635 contributed by n00bhaxor Path: gather/splunkrawserverinfo Description: This PR adds a module for an authenticated Splunk information disclosure vulnerability. This...
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up
Apache RocketMQ We saw some great teamwork this week from jheysel-r7 and h00die to bring you an exploit module for CVE-2023-33246. In Apache RocketMQ version 5.1.0 and under, there is an access control issue which the module leverages to update the broker's configuration file without...
Rapid7 Observes Use of Microsoft OneNote to Spread Redline Infostealer Malware
Author: Thomas Elkins Contributors: Matt Green, James Dunne, and Hernan Diaz Rapid7 routinely conducts research into the wide range of techniques that threat actors use to conduct malicious activity. One objective of this research is to discover new techniques being used in the wild, so we can...
What’s New in InsightIDR: Q4 2022 in Review
As we continue to empower security teams with the freedom to focus on what matters most, Q4 focused on investments and releases that contributed to that vision. With InsightIDR, Rapid7’s cloud-native SIEM and XDR solution, teams have the scale, comprehensive contextual coverage, and expertly vett...
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-UP
GLPI htmLawed PHP Command Injection Our very own bwatters-r7 wrote a module for an unauthenticated PHP command injection vulnerability that exists in various versions of GLPI. The vulnerability is due to a third-party vendor test script being present in default installations. A POST request to...