[Security Nation] John Rouffas on Building a Security Function

!\Security Nation\ John Rouffas on Building a Security Functionhttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2022/02/securitynationlogo--1-.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, Jen chats with John Rouffas, CISO at intelliflo, about his experience building out a security function and team at a young a...

Metasploit Wrap-Up

Metasploit CTF 2021 starts today It’s that time of year again! Time for the 2021 Metasploit Community CTF. Earlier today over 1,100 users in more than 530 teams were registered and opened for participation to solve this year’s 18 challenges. Next week a recap and the winners will be announced, so...

Hands-On IoT Hacking: Rapid7 at DefCon 29 IoT Village, Part 4

The first 3 installments of our series on Rapid7's hands-on exercise from the IoT Village at this year's DefCon covered how to set up a UART header, how to determine UART status and baud rate, and how to log into single-user mode on the device. In this final post, we'll discuss how to gain full...

[Security Nation] Jeff Man on Mapping the MITRE ATT&CK Framework Against PCI

!\Security Nation\ Jeff Man on Mapping the MITRE ATT&CK Framework Against PCIhttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2021/05/securitynationlogo-1.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, we are joined by Jeff Man, who discusses his work mapping the MITRE ATT&CK Framework against PCI. Stick around f...

Creating coefficiency: DevOps, Security, and Compliance

Secure IaC Infrastructure-as-code IaC is a powerful partnership accelerator. As businesses and organizations scale into the cloud to realize its full production-enablement potential, security often struggles to keep up. The ultimate goal on the security horizon is, of course, to prevent risks and...

Building a Holistic VRM Strategy That Includes the Web Application Layer

Building security into your overall vulnerability risk management VRM strategy is a must-do in the age of the all-important web app. Between security and IT-Ops teams, there are a number of steps in the VRM process, including asset identification, enumeration, prioritization, and remediation. How...

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...

The Risky Business: Rapid7 Report Highlights Need for Improved Vulnerability Management Practices

Back in July, Rapid7 released its first-ever National / Industry / Cloud Exposure Report, otherwise known as “NICER.” This report had a big job: to assess not only the prevalence of known threats, but also to provide a geographic census of those threats. It tells the all-too-true story of...

NICER Protocol Deep Dive: Internet Exposure of Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL) (UDP/1434)

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...

Visualizing Network Traffic Data to Drive Action

Top 5 multi group queries for analyzing network sensor data We launched the Insight Network Sensor earlier this year and have since seen great adoption from both new and existing customers. The main use case behind this success is the need for network visibility. Customers want to know what is...

Criminal AI-as-a-Service in 2026: How the Underground Market Is Operationalizing Cybercrime

Introduction The underground market for criminally oriented generative AI has moved beyond the early hype surrounding 'malicious chatbots.' The gradual integration of AI as a productivity layer within cybercrime operations has become the dominant story, indicating that while the potential for ful...

CVE-2026-0826: Critical unauthenticated stack buffer overflow in HP Poly VVX and Trio VoIP Phones (FIXED)

Overview Rapid7 Labs conducted a zero-day research project against an HP Poly VVX 450 Voice over Internet Protocol VoIP phone. This research resulted in the discovery of a critical unauthenticated stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability, CVE-2026-0826. A remote attacker can leverage CVE-2026-08...

Patch Tuesday - March 2025

Microsoft is addressing 57 vulnerabilities this March 2025 Patch Tuesday, which is a similar volume to last month. However, Microsoft has evidence of in-the-wild exploitation for as many as six of the vulnerabilities published today, and CISA KEV already lists all of them. Microsoft is also aware...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 01/24/2025

LibreNMS Authenticated RCE module and ESC15 improvements This week the Metasploit Framework was blessed with an authenticated RCE module in LibreNMS, an autodiscovering PHP/MySQL-based network monitoring system. An authenticated attacker can create dangerous directory names on the system and alte...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 09/13/2024

SPIP Modules This week brings more modules targeting the SPIP publishing platform. SPIP has gained some attention from Metasploit community contributors recently and has inspired some PHP payload and encoder improvements. New module content 2 SPIP BigUp Plugin Unauthenticated RCE Authors: Julien...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 7/19/2024

GeoServer Unauthenticated RCE This week, contributor h00die-gr3y added an interesting exploit module that targets the GeoServer open-source application. This software is used to view, edit, and share geospatial data. Versions prior to 2.23.6, versions between 2.24.0 and 2.24.3 and versions betwee...

Whispers of Atlantida: Safeguarding Your Digital Treasure

Recently, Rapid7 observed a new stealer named Atlantida. The stealer tricks users to download a malicious file from a compromised website, and uses several evasion techniques such as reflective loading and injection before the stealer is loaded. Atlantida steals a wide range of login information ...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up: Dec. 15, 2023

Continuing the 12th Labor of Metasploit Metasploit continues its Herculean task of increasing our toolset to tame Kerberos by adding support for ASREP Roasting, which allows retrieving the password hashes of users who have Do not require Kerberos preauthentication set on the domain controller. Th...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

Capture Plugin Capturing credentials is a critical and early phase in the playbook of many offensive security testers. Metasploit has facilitated this for years with protocol-specific modules all under the auxiliary/server/capture. Users can start and configure each of these modules individually,...

Decrypter FOMO No Mo’: Five Years of the No More Ransom Project

The amazing No More Ransom Project celebrates its fifth anniversary today and so we just wanted to take a moment to talk about what it has accomplished and why you should tell all your friends about it. The name pretty much says it all — No More Ransom aims to help organizations avoid having to p...

Rapid7 Acquires IntSights to Tackle the Expanding Threat Landscape

I am pleased to share the exciting news that, today, Rapid7 acquired IntSights, a leading provider of cloud-native, external threat intelligence and proactive threat remediation. The IntSights team is fantastic, and their threat intelligence capabilities are equally impressive. I’ll share more...

Don Spies and Kim Grauer on tracking illicit Bitcoin transactions

In this episode of Security Nation, we’re joined by Don Spies and Kim Grauer of Chainalysis. They discuss the relationship between ransomware and cryptocurrency and how Chainalysis leverages unique characteristics of the latter to combat the former. Stick around for our Rapid Rundown, where Tod a...

How ViacomCBS Digital delivers uninterrupted content streaming to millions of fans without compromising security: Lessons for enterprise CISOs

Each day, ViacomCBS Digital sees a growing surge in digital content demand—from MTV and Comedy Central to CBS Sports, rushing across its Paramount+ formerly CBS All Access streaming platform. Delivering digital content to millions of users on a daily basis doesn’t happen on its own—it makes it to...

2021 Detection and Response Planning, Part 3: Why 2021 Is the Year for SOC Automation

In this third installment of our series around 2021 security planning, we’re focused on SOC automation. In part one, we spoke with Rapid7 Detection and Response Practice Advisor, Jeffrey Gardner on tips and advice for ramping up annual security planning. In part two, we discussed how reliable,...

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...

Metasploit Wrap-Up 04/04/2025

New RCEs Metasploit added four new modules this week, including three that leverage vulnerabilities to obtain remote code execution RCE. Among these three, two leverage deserialization, showing that the exploit primitive is still going strong. The Tomcat vulnerability in particular CVE-2025-24813...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 11/22/2024

JetBrains TeamCity Login Scanner Metasploit added a login scanner for the TeamCity application to enable users to check for weak credentials. TeamCity has been the subject of multiple ETR vulnerabilities and is a valuable target for attackers. Targeted DCSync added to Windows Secrets Dump This...

Stories from the SOC Part 1: IDAT Loader to BruteRatel

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...

New InsightCloudSec Compliance Pack: Implementing and Enforcing ISO 27001:2022

James Alaniz and Diamond Fair contributed to this article. We’ve been on quite a roll lately releasing new compliance packs, along with iterative updates to others that we’ve supported for a while now. We’re not done yet, either! In this article, we’ll discuss our newly released compliance pack f...

Troubleshooting InsightAppSec Authentication Issues

For complete visibility into the vulnerabilities in your environment, proper authentication to web apps in InsightAppSec is essential. In this article, we’ll look at issues you might encounter with macro, traffic, and selenium authentication and how to troubleshoot them. Additionally, you’ll get...

Hands-On IoT Hacking: Rapid7 at DEF CON 30 IoT Village, Pt. 2

Welcome back to our blog series on Rapid7's IoT Village exercise from DEF CON 30. Last week, we covered the basics of the exercise and achieving access to flash memory. In this post, we'll cover how to extract partition data. Extracting partition data The next step in our hands-on IoT hacking...

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...

[The Lost Bots] Episode 2: Extended Detection and Response (XDR)

!\The Lost Bots\ Episode 2: Extended Detection and Response \XDR\https://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2021/07/-The-Lost-Bots--Episode-1--External-Threat-Intelligence.jpg Welcome back to The Lost Bots, a new vlog series where Rapid7 Detection and Response Practice Advisor Jeffrey Gardner talks a...

Top Challenges for Security Analytics and Operations, and How a Cloud-Based SIEM Can Help

As the attack surface continues to grow, the job of a security professional is getting exponentially more complicated. With the surge in remote work over the last year, this has only accelerated. To keep up and combat key security operations challenges, many organizations are making the move to t...

DevSecOps and the New Scope of Application Development

Hand in hand: Application development and application security As expectations of developers change, so too do those of security teams. It’s more of a collective effort than ever as business dependence on applications continues to grow. Security must shift further left into the software developme...

Ransomware Payments and Sanctions - U.S. Treasury Advisory

On Oct. 1, the United States Treasury Department Office of Foreign Assets Control OFAC issued an advisory concerning ransomware payments and sanctions regulations. The advisory warned that paying ransoms to sanctioned persons and entities risks violating the law. It also notes that OFAC may impos...

Weekly Metasploit Update: Modules for SMB-to-Meterpreter, Peyara Remote Mouse RCE exploit, and more

It's Time to Upgrade Your SMB Session This week, Metasploit contributor Dean Welch has added an SMB to Meterpreter session upgrade module. It uses PsExec to facilitate the upgrade. Users can load the module with use windows/manage/smbtometerpreter and specify the session number they wish to...

CVE-2025-0282: Ivanti Connect Secure Zero-Day Exploited in the Wild

On Wednesday, January 8, 2025, Ivanti disclosed two CVEs affecting Ivanti Connect Secure, Policy Secure, and Neurons for ZTA gateways. CVE-2025-0282 is a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability that allows remote, unauthenticated attackers to execute code on the target device. CVE-2025-0283 is ...

Patch Tuesday - December 2024

Microsoft is addressing 70 vulnerabilities this December 2024 Patch Tuesday. Microsoft has evidence of in-the-wild exploitation and public disclosure for one of the vulnerabilities published today, and this is reflected in a CISA KEV entry. For the third month in a row, Microsoft has published...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up: 11/15/2024

Palo Alto Expedition RCE module This week's release includes an exploit module for the Palo Alto Expedition exploit chain that's been making headlines recently. The first vulnerability, CVE-2024-5910, allows attackers to reset the password of the admin user. The second vulnerability, CVE-2024-946...

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...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 04/12/24

Account Takeover using Shadow Credentials The new release of Metasploit Framework includes a Shadow Credentials module added by smashery used for reliably taking over an Active Directory user account or computer, and letting future authentication to happen as that account. This can be chained wit...

Hack Back Is Still Wack

Every year or two, we see a policy proposal around authorizing private-sector hack back. The latest of these is legislation from two U.S. Senators, Daines and Whitehouse, and it would require the U.S. Department of Homeland Security DHS to “conduct a study on the potential benefits and risks of...

[Security Nation] How Robert Black Wards Off Cyber-Attackers with Deception Techniques

!\Security Nation\ How Robert Black Wards Off Cyber-Attackers with Deception Techniqueshttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2021/05/securitynationlogo-2.jpg In our latest episode of Security Nation, we talk with Robert Black, Deputy Director of the UK National Cyber Deception Lab, about his wor...

Rapid7 Recognized as a Strong Performer in the Inaugural Forrester Wave™ for MDR, Q1 2021

Independent research firm cites Rapid7 MDR’s “security professionals with extensive incident response and threat hunting experience” delivering a “white-glove, behavioral detection-inspired” service. Detection and response is a critical component to any security program, but standing up an...

Congrats to the winners of the 2020 December Metasploit community CTF

Thank you all that participated in the 2020 December Metasploit community CTF! The four day CTF was well received by the community, with 874 teams and 1903 users registered! We’ve included the high-level stats and the competition winners below. If you played the CTF and want to let the Metasploit...

Multiple vulnerabilities in Ingress NGINX Controller for Kubernetes

On March 24, 2025, Kubernetes disclosed 5 new vulnerabilities affecting the Ingress NGINX Controller for Kubernetes. Successful exploitation could allow attackers access to all secrets stored across all namespaces in the Kubernetes cluster, which could result in cluster takeover. CVE-2025-1974 9....

CVE-2024-4978: Backdoored Justice AV Solutions Viewer Software Used in Apparent Supply Chain Attack

The following Rapid7 team members contributed to this blog: Ipek Solak, Thomas Elkins, Evan McCann, Matthew Smith, Jake McMahon, Tyler McGraw, Ryan Emmons, Stephen Fewer, and John Fenninger Overview Justice AV Solutions JAVS is a U.S.-based company specializing in digital audio-visual recording...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 05/03/24

Dump secrets inline This week, our very own cdelafuente-r7 added a significant improvement to the well-known Windows Secrets Dump module to reduce the footprint when dumping SAM hashes, LSA secrets and cached credentials. The module is now directly reading the Windows Registry remotely without...

Rapid7 offers continued vulnerability coverage in the face of NVD delays

Recently, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST announced on the National Vulnerability Database NVD site that there would be delays in adding information on newly published CVEs. NVD enriches CVEs with basic details about a vulnerability like the vulnerability’s CVSS score,...