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Metasploit Wrap-Up
Keep your eyes peeled for another Metasploit CTF We hosted our third Annualish Metasploit CTF back in January of this year. All 1,000 slots were booked within days of announcing the competition. Because of the resounding success, we'll be hosting the fourth Annualish Metasploit CTF by year’s end...
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...
InsightIDR AI Alert Triage Automatically Classifies Alerts with 99.93% Accuracy
Rapid7 AI Alert Triage helps SOC analysts quickly and accurately triage thousands of daily alerts, improving efficiency and enabling focus. One universal truth in Security Operations Centers SOCs is that analysts are overwhelmed by the high volume of alerts they receive. In a recent survey, SOC...
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...
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...
Easier URI Targeting With Metasploit Framework
Over the past year and a half, Metasploit Framework’s core engineering team in Belfast has made significant improvements to usability, discoverability, and the general quality of life for the global community of Framework users. A few of the enhancements we’ve worked on in MSF 6 include: A handy...
Rapid7 + XDR: Security that Moves as Fast as Your Business
Since launching InsightIDR almost six years ago, our mission has remained constant: make it possible for any security team to achieve fast, sophisticated threat detection and response programs that scale with their business. Making threat detection and response as agile and simple as possible...
InsightVM Release Announcement: Global Dashboard Filters
InsightVM users have been able to create dashboards, add different visualizations in the form of cards and apply filters to these cards. Rapid7 also provided dashboard templates which enabled users to create views focusing on scenarios such as Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday, identifying and assessing...
Attack Surface Analysis Part 2: Penetration Testing
In this three-part series, we’ll explore key considerations and strategies for choosing an attack surface analysis strategy, and the ways it can be used to increase awareness of both technical and process-related risks. This is the second installment in our 2021 series around attack surface...
Rapid7's 2021 ICER Takeaways: High-Risk Services Among the Fortune 500
This blog post covers key takeaways from our 2021 Industry Cyber-Exposure Report ICER: Fortune 500. Original analysis for these findings was conducted by Tom Sellers. There are certain services that are generally considered to be high-risk when found available on the public internet. As an exampl...
4 DevOps Challenges to Cloud Security and Compliance—and How IaC Can Help
To react or to prevent? The term “cure” is generally a positive one. However, in cloud security, it assumes a reactive position to some vulnerability or breach that’s already taken place. When it comes down to it, DevOps and Security teams—we all hope—are working together toward a culture of...
Rapid7 Announces General Availability for Scoped Executive Summary Report in InsightVM
Security teams often struggle to demonstrate the efficacy and progress of their organization’s vulnerability and remediation management program. This is a result of the complexity around identifying, collecting, and visualizing complicated metrics. InsightVM’s Executive Summary Report has proved ...
DivvyCloud Adds Support for IAM Analyzer Policy Recommendations
Last week, Amazon Web Services AWS announced an improvement to its IAM Access Analyzer that allows its users to proactively analyze and validate Identity & Access Management IAM policies against more than 100 checks and receive actionable recommendations on improving its security and efficacy. By...
Talkin’ SMAC: Alert Labeling and Why It Matters
If you’ve ever worked in a Security Operations Center SOC, you know that it’s a special place. Among other things, the SOC is a massive data-labeling machine, and generates some of the most valuable data in the cybersecurity industry. Unfortunately, much of this valuable data is often rendered...
NICER Protocol Deep Dive: Internet Exposure of etcd
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...
Fewer False Alarms, Faster Reporting: InsightVM Introduces New One-Click Fix For False Positives
Let’s talk about false positives. They’re frustrating and faulty, but also about as certain as death and taxes for anyone working in IT security. The good news? We’ve added even more ways to reduce the noise they cause. According to Forrester Consulting’s 2019 study, customers have experienced a...
What’s New in InsightIDR: Q3 2020 in Review
In July, we provided a rundown of what was new in InsightIDR, our cloud-based SIEM tool, from the first half of 2020 check out the blog post here for a recap. We’ve released some pretty great features and updates since then, so we thought it was time for another recap! This post offers a closer...
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 ...
Metasploit Wrap-Up
Making Metasploit faster This week's wrap-up includes many new modules, but notably, we've upgraded Metasploit loading. Thanks to bcoles, the bootup performance when searching for a module has been increased in 20166. Also, we've reduced Metasploit startup time - in 20155. New module content 6...
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 10/18/2024
ESC15: EKUwu AD CS continues to be a popular target for penetration testers and security practitioners. The latest escalation technique hence the the ESC in ESC15 was discovered by Justin Bollinger with details being released just last week. This latest configuration flaw has common issuance...
The Updated APT Playbook: Tales from the Kimsuky threat actor group
Co-authors are Christiaan Beek and Raj Samani Within Rapid7 Labs we continually track and monitor threat groups. This is one of our key areas of focus as we work to ensure that our ability to protect customers remains constant. As part of this process, we routinely identify evolving tactics from...
Rapid7 Delivers Visibility Across All 19 Steps of Attack in 2023 MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK® Evaluations: Enterprise
Over seven years ago, we set out to change the way that SOCs approach threat detection and response. With the introduction of InsightIDR, we wanted to address the false positives and snowballing complexity that was burning out analysts, deteriorating security posture, and inhibiting necessary...
Evolving How We Share Rapid7 Research Data
In the spring of 2018, we launched the Open Data initiative to provide security teams and researchers with access to research data generated from Project Sonar and Project Heisenberg. Our goal for those projects is to understand how the attack surface is evolving, what exposures are most common o...
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...
A Matter of Perspective: Agent-Based and Agentless Approaches to Cloud Security, Part 1
When it comes to securing your cloud assets' activities at runtime, the first step is deciding how. There are enough possible solutions that you're likely to find yourself at a crossroads trying to decide between them. The factors that may affect your choice include: Friction level — How...
[The Lost Bots] Episode 1: External Threat Intelligence
!\The Lost Bots\ Episode 1: External Threat Intelligencehttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2021/07/-The-Lost-Bots--Episode-1--External-Threat-Intelligence.png Welcome to The Lost Bots, a new vlog series where Rapid7 resident expert and former CISO Jeffrey Gardner virtually sits down with fell...
How the Biden Administration's cybersecurity order will affect companies
“It is the policy of my Administration that the prevention, detection, assessment, and remediation of cyber incidents is a top priority and essential to national and economic security.” The Biden Administration recently issued Executive Order EO 14028, “Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity,” to...
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...
Shifting Security Right: How Cloud-Based SecOps Can Speed Processes While Maintaining Integrity
When it comes to offloading security controls to the cloud, it may seem counterintuitive to the notion of “securing” things. But, when we consider the efficiency to be gained by shifting right with some security controls, it makes sense to send more granular, ground-up responsibilities to a trust...
Set New InsightVM Goals and Share with Your Team for Increased Visibility and More Efficient Execution
Since 2018, thousands of enterprises have utilized InsightVM’s Goals and SLAs feature to build their organization-specific security goals. Through Goals and SLAs, security teams ensure that they’re making progress toward their goals and service-level agreements SLAs at an appropriate pace, and th...
CVE-2026-16232: Critical Check Point SmartConsole Authentication Bypass Exploited in the Wild
Overview On July 22, 2026, Check Point published a security advisory for multiple vulnerabilities affecting Security Management, Multi-Domain Management, and firewall products. The most urgent of these is CVE-2026-16232, an authentication bypass in the SmartConsole login process classified as...
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...
Patch Tuesday - June 2026
Microsoft is publishing 200 vulnerabilities on June 2026 Patch Tuesday. Microsoft is not aware of exploitation in the wild for any of these vulnerabilities, and is aware of public disclosure for three. This is similar to last month’s Patch Tuesday, however several of last month’s vulnerabilities...
Metasploit Wrap-Up: 11/08/2024
RISC-V Support This release of Metasploit Framework has added exciting new features such as new payloads that target the RISC-V architecture. These payloads allow for the execution of commands on compromised hardware, allowing Metasploit Framework and Metasploit Payloads to be used in more...
Automating Qakbot decode at scale
This is a technical post covering practical methodology to extract configuration data from recent Qakbot samples. In this blog, I will provide some background on Qakbot, then walk through decode themes in an easy to visualize manner. I will then share a Velociraptor artifact to detect and automat...
Multiple DMS XSS (CVE-2022-47412 through CVE-20222-47419)
Through the course of routine security testing and analysis, Rapid7 has discovered several issues in on-premises installations of open source and freemium Document Management System DMS offerings from four vendors. While all of the discovered issues are instances of CWE-79: Improper Neutralizatio...
MDR Vendor Must-Haves, Part 3: Ingestion of Other Technology Investments
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.” By the time you’re ready to invest in a Managed Detection and Response MDR service, you’ve likely already invest...
This One Time on a Pen Test: CSRF to Password Reset Phishing
Each year, Rapid7 penetration testers complete hundreds of internally and externally based penetration testing service engagements. This post is part of an ongoing series featuring testimonials of what goes on beneath the hoodie. For more insights, check out our 2020 Under the Hoodie report...
Metasploit Wrap-Up 05/09/2025
New Toys and New Techniques This release features a new OPNSense login scanner, a module targeting the Sante PACS path traversal vulnerability, an additional method for stealing Network Access Account credentials via SMB to HTTP relay, and the Erlang/OTP SSH exploit everyone was excited about. Ne...
Critical Veeam Backup & Replication CVE-2025-23120
Update Friday, March 28, 2025: Security researchers at CODE WHITE GmbH have noted on social media that it is possible to bypass the patch for CVE-2025-23120. Rapid7 has not directly confirmed the patch bypass, but we are relatively confident in the validity of the finding. Customers should ensure...
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 12/06/2024
Post-Thanksgiving Big Release This week's release is an impressive one. It adds 9 new modules, which will get you remote code execution on products such as Ivanti Connect Secure, VMware vCenter Server, Asterisk, Fortinet FortiManager and Acronis Cyber Protect. It also includes an account takeover...
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 10/04/2024
New module content 3 cups-browsed Information Disclosure Authors: bcoles and evilsocket Type: Auxiliary Pull request: 19510 contributed by bcoles Path: scanner/misc/cupsbrowsedinfodisclosure Description: Adds scanner module to retrieve CUPS version and kernel version information from cups-browsed...
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 06/07/2024
New OSX payloads:ARMed and Dangerous In addition to an RCE leveraging CVE-2024-5084 to gain RCE through a WordPress Hash form, this release features the addition of several new binary OSX stageless payloads with aarch64 support: Execute Command, Shell Bind TCP, and Shell Reverse TCP. The new...
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up
Customizable DNS resolution Contributor smashery added a new dns command to Metasploit console, which allows the user to customize the behavior of DNS resolution. Similarly to the route command, it is now possible to specify where DNS requests should be sent to avoid any information leak. Before...
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 ·...
Multiple Vulnerabilities in South River Technologies Titan MFT and Titan SFTP [FIXED]
!Multiple Vulnerabilities in South River Technologies Titan MFT and Titan SFTP \FIXED\https://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2023/10/vuln-disclosure-banner.jpeg As part of our continuing research project into managed file transfer risk, including JSCAPE MFT and Fortra Globalscape EFT Server, Rapi...
CVE-2023-4528: Java Deserialization Vulnerability in JSCAPE MFT (Fixed)
In August 2023, Rapid7 discovered a Java deserialization vulnerability in Redwood Software’s JSCAPE MFT secure managed file transfer product. The vulnerability was later assigned CVE-2023-4528. It can be exploited by sending an XML-encoded Java object to the Manager Service port, which, by defaul...