[The Lost Bots] Episode 3: Stories From the SOC

!\The Lost Bots\ Episode 3: Stories From the SOChttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2021/08/-The-Lost-Bots--Episode-1--External-Threat-Intelligence.jpg Welcome back to The Lost Bots, a vlog series where Rapid7 Detection and Response Practice Advisor Jeffrey Gardner talks all things security wi...

Rapid7 and Velociraptor Join Forces

Exciting news! Rapid7 has acquired a digital forensics and incident response DFIR framework. Velociraptor is an open-source project that allows for hunting across thousands of hosts to provide actionable data in minutes and unprecedented visibility into the state of endpoints. A cyberattack can...

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...

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...

The State of Security Today: Setting the Stage for 2026

As we close out 2025, one thing is clear: the security landscape is evolving faster than most organizations can keep up. From surging ransomware campaigns and AI-enhanced phishing to data extortion, geopolitical fallout, and gaps in cyber readiness, the challenges facing security teams today are ...

Ivanti Connect Secure CVE-2025-22457 exploited in the wild

On Thursday, April 3, 2025, Ivanti disclosed a critical severity vulnerability affecting Ivanti Connect Secure, Pulse Connect Secure, Policy Secure, and ZTA Gateways. CVE-2025-22457 is a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability that allows remote, unauthenticated attackers to execute code on the...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 08/02/2024

Metasploit goes to Hacker Summer Camp Next week, Metasploit will have demos at both Black Hat and DEF CON where the latest functionality from this year will be presented. The Black Hat demo will be on Thursday the 8th from 10:10 to 11:25 and the DEF CON demo will be on Saturday the 10th from 12:0...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 03/01/2024

Connect the dots from authentication bypass to remote code execution This week, our very own sfewer-r7 added a new exploit module that leverages an authentication bypass vulnerability in ConnectWise ScreenConnect to achieve remote code execution. This vulnerability, CVE-2024-1709, affects all...

Little Crumbs Can Lead To Giants

This week is the Virus Bulletin Conference in London. Part of the conference is the Cyber Threat Alliance summit, where CTA members like Rapid7 showcase their research into all kinds of cyber threats and techniques. Traditionally, when we investigate a campaign, the focus is mostly on the code of...

Why Your AWS Cloud Container Needs Client-Side Security

With increasingly complicated network infrastructure and organizations needing to deploy applications across various environments, cloud containers are necessary for companies to stay agile and innovative. Containers are packages of software that hold all of the necessary components for an app to...

Rapid7 Recognized on Bloomberg Gender Equality Index, Continues Commitments to Support DEI

For the fifth year in a row, Rapid7 is pleased to share that we've been included in the Bloomberg Gender Equality Index. The Gender Equality Index GEI recognizes publicly traded companies for being transparent in their commitment to gender equality. This includes how they score in areas such as...

[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...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

BYOS: Bring your own stager We try hard to make sure we have a great choice of fully-functional payloads to choose from, but sometimes you might want to “branch” out on your own, and if that’s the case we’ve got you covered. In an attempt to make Metasploit play well with others, we’ve introduced...

NPM Library (ua-parser-js) Hijacked: What You Need to Know

Last Update: October 27, 2021 For approximately 4 hours on Friday, October 22, 2021, a widely utilized NPM package, ua-parser-js, was embedded with a malicious script intended to install a coinminer and harvest user/credential information. This package is used “to detect Browser, Engine, OS, CPU,...

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...

Kill chains: Part 2→Strategic and tactical use cases

Let’s redefine In our new blog series, we want to contextualize the term “kill chain” as much as possible. Make sure to read the first entry in this series, Kill chains: Part 1→Strategic and operational value, for a general overview of kill chains and the specific frameworks we’ve discussed. We...

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. ...

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 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...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap up

It’s open season on Openfire with a new RCE module in Metasploit This week the Metasploit framework saw the addition of an RCE module which exploits path traversal vulnerability in the instant messaging and group chat server, Openfire. The module was submitted by the one and only community...

Cloud Threat Detection: To Agent or Not to Agent?

The shift towards cloud and cloud-native application architectures represents an evolutionary step forward from older paradigms. The adoption of containers, Kubernetes, and serverless functions, along with the use of cloud-based infrastructure, introduces a new set of risks and security challenge...

Cybersecurity as Digital Detective Work: DFIR and Its 3 Key Components

Thanks to CSI and the many other crime-solving shows that have grasped our collective imagination for decades, we're all at least somewhat familiar with the field of forensics and its unique appeal. At some point, anyone who's watched these series has probably envisioned themselves in the...

Black Hat 2021: Rapid7 Experts Share Key Day 1 Takeaways

OK, no big deal, we know how this goes. Once again, many of us are attending Black Hat in a virtual capacity as COVID-19 meanders its way out of our lives. The good news is that there’s an actual live component again this year in Las Vegas, and that’s progress. Here’s hoping that next year the...

Automated remediation level 2: Best practices

A low-impact workaround When it comes to automating remediation, the second level we’ll discuss takes a bit of additional planning. This is so that users will see little to no impact in the account fundamentals automation process. This framework aligns with the Center for Internet Security Amazon...

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...

Securing Kubernetes Deployments From Runway to Takeoff

Kubernetes use is rising rapidly—according to a 2019 Cloud Native Computing Foundation CNCF survey, 78% of respondents say they use Kubernetes today 58% more respondents than the previous year. With numbers like those, it looks like everyone is headed toward the cloud. But as with any journey, yo...

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...

Don’t Put It on the Internet: Tesla Backup Gateway Edition

Derek Abdine, formerly Director of Rapid7 Labs, now CTO at Censys, contributed this blog post. This blog post aims to increase user awareness of the privacy and security risks of connecting devices to the internet. In this edition, we address Tesla Backup Gateways and identify some key areas wher...

CVE-2026-19490: Critical Vulnerability Affecting Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway

Overview On August 19, 2026, a security advisory was published for CVE-2026-19490, a critical authentication bypass vulnerability affecting Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway. The vulnerability carries a CVSS v4.0 base score of 9.3 and can be exploited remotely by an unauthenticated...

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 Wrap-Up 05/10/2024

Password Spraying support Multiple bruteforce/login scanner modules have been updated to support a PASSWORDSPRAY module option. This work was completed in pull request 19079 from nrathaus as well as an additional update from our developers . When the password spraying option is set, the order of...

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...

Multiple Vulnerabilities in Rocket Software UniRPC server (Fixed)

In early 2023, Rapid7 discovered several vulnerabilities in Rocket Software's UniData and UniVerse UniRPC server and related services running on the Linux platform. Rapid7 worked with Rocket Software to fix the issues and coordinate this disclosure. This disclosure will detail a number of differe...

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...

Once Again, Rapid7 Named a Leader in 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for SIEM

Rapid7 is elated for InsightIDR to be recognized as a Leader in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Security Information and Event Management SIEM. This is the second consecutive time our SaaS SIEM—InsightIDR—has been named a Leader in this report. Access the full complimentary report from us her...

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...

[Security Nation] Marina Ciavatta and int eighty Put the Fun into Hacking With Hacking Esports and Dual Core Music

!\Security Nation\ Marina Ciavatta and int eighty Put the Fun into Hacking With Hacking Esports and Dual Core Musichttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2021/04/securitynationlogo-65.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, we are joined by Marina Ciavatta and int eighty to talk about Hacking...

Security Isn’t a Four-Letter Word: How Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Amplifies DevOps Through the Inclusion of Security

Our fast-paced lives are fueled by innovative, cloud-native companies. We are able to watch our favorite programs and movies from anywhere in the world on any device. We are able to collaborate with our colleagues on an upcoming presentation, regardless of whether we’re in the office or at home...

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...

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...

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...

CVE-2026-55040: Microsoft SharePoint JWT Token Authentication Bypass (FIXED)

Overview Rapid7 Labs conducted a zero-day research project against Microsoft SharePoint, resulting in the discovery of two new vulnerabilities that, when chained together, achieve unauthenticated remote code execution RCE against a vulnerable SharePoint server. Today, both Rapid7 and Microsoft ar...

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...

[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...

Sneaking Through Windows: Infostealer Malware Masquerades as Windows Application

This post also includes contributions from Reese Lewis, Andrew Christian, and Seth Lazarus. Rapid7's Managed Detection and Response MDR team leverages specialized toolsets, malware analysis, tradecraft, and collaboration with our colleagues on the Threat Intelligence and Detection Engineering TID...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...