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 Framework 6.5 Released

Today we’re proud to announce that Metasploit Framework version 6.5 has been released. Over the past two years, with the help of countless contributors, we’ve added 422 new modules along with a whole slew of new features. Malleable C2 Profiles for HTTP One of the latest and most requested feature...

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...

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 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 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...

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...

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...

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...

InsightVM: Best Practices to Improve Your Console

Over the years, our recommendations and best practices for the InsightVM console have changed with the improvements and updates we’ve made to the system. Here are some of the most common improvements to help you get the most out of your InsightVM console in 2022. Ensure everything is up to date T...

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...

[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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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 ...

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...

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,...

The 2021 OWASP Top 10 Have Evolved: Here's What You Should Know

Late last week, the Open Web Application Security Project OWASP released its top 10 list of critical web application security risks. The last OWASP Top 10 came out in 2017, and in the intervening 4 years, we've seen a fundamental shift in application security that includes greater emphasis on...

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...

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,...

Patch Tuesday - May 2025

Microsoft is addressing 77 vulnerabilities this May 2025 Patch Tuesday. Microsoft has evidence of in-the-wild exploitation for five of the vulnerabilities published today, and these are already reflected in CISA KEV. Separately, Microsoft is aware of existing public disclosure for two...

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...

Helpful tools to get started in IoT Assessments

The Internet of Things IoT can be a daunting field to get into. With many different tools and products available on the market it can be confusing to even know where to start. Having performed dozens of IoT assessments, I felt it would be beneficial to compile a basic list of items that are...

Rapid7 doubles down on a platform approach for Vulnerability Risk Management

This week, Rapid7 was named a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave™: Vulnerability Risk Management, Q3 2023. The report, which included 11 vulnerability risk management vendors, represented Rapid7's inclusion in the Wave report for vulnerability management. We are proud to be recognized for our...

Network Access for Sale: Protect Your Organization Against This Growing Threat

Vulnerable network access points are a potential gold mine for threat actors who, once inside, can exploit them persistently. Many cybercriminals are not only interested in obtaining personal information but also seek corporate information that could be sold to the highest bidder. Infiltrating...

[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...

Why the Robot Hackers Aren’t Here (Yet)

“Estragon: I'm like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget.” - Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot Hacking and Automation As hackers, we spend a lot of time making things easier for ourselves. For example, you might be aware of a tool called Metasploit, which can be used to make getting...

[Security Nation] Jonathan Cran on demystifying startup funding for security companies

!\Security Nation\ Jonathan Cran on demystifying startup funding for security companieshttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2021/07/securitynationlogo.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, we’re joined by Jonathan Cran. We wade into uncharted territory with Jonathan, as he claims the title of...