Don’t Let These Top Cloud Myths Hamper Your Business Decision-Making

The cloud remains a dominant technology innovation well into its second decade of existence. However, after all this time, certain cloud computing myths still creep into the minds of CIOs and other denizens of the corner office. For example, some business decision-makers feel the cloud is simply ...

Metasploit Wrap-Up

Hacktoberfest 2020 is happening Metasploit is proud to announce that we're participating in Hacktoberfest 2020. Presented by DigitalOcean, Intel, and DEV, Hacktoberfest is an annual celebration of open-source software during the month of October. The first 70,000 participants to submit 4 pull...

NICER Protocol Deep Dive: Internet Exposure of FTP/S (TCP/990)

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 05/29/2026

More Linux LPEs Hark the age of the Linux LPE has arrived. This week’s release follows up on recent work bringing new Linux LPEs to Metasploit users. Copy Fail seemed to have kicked off a trend of similar bugs and hot on its heels is Dirty Frag. Dirty Frag is actually two vulnerabilities in a...

Patch Tuesday - May 2026

Microsoft is publishing 137 vulnerabilities on May 2026 Patch Tuesday. Microsoft is not aware of exploitation in the wild or public disclosure for any of these vulnerabilities. So far this month, Microsoft has provided patches to address 133 browser vulnerabilities, which are not included in the...

Patch Tuesday - February 2026

Microsoft is publishing 55 vulnerabilities this February 2026 Patch Tuesday. Microsoft is aware of exploitation in the wild for six of today’s vulnerabilities, and notes public disclosure for three of those. Earlier in the month, Microsoft provided patches to address three browser vulnerabilities...

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 Weekly Wrap-Up 08/23/2024

New module content 3 Fortra FileCatalyst Workflow SQL Injection CVE-2024-5276 Authors: Michael Heinzl and Tenable Type: Auxiliary Pull request: 19373 contributed by h4x-x0r Path: admin/http/fortrafilecatalystworkflowsqli AttackerKB reference: CVE-2024-5276 Description: This adds an auxiliary modu...

New! Insight Agent Support for ARM-based Windows in InsightVM

We are pleased to introduce Insight Agent support of ARM-based Windows 11 devices for both vulnerability and policy assessment within InsightVM. Customers with Windows 11 devices powered by ARM processors can now take advantage of the great performance and lower power requirements of these chips...

Metasploit Wrap-Up 05/17/2024

LDAP Authentication Improvements This week, in Metasploit v6.4.9, the team has added multiple improvements for LDAP related attacks. Two improvements relating to authentication is the new support for Signing and Channel Binding. Microsoft has been making changes to harden the communications to...

5 key MDR differentiators to look for to build stronger security resilience

Organizations looking to address the skills gap and bring greater efficiency as their business grows and their attack surface sprawls are turning to MDR providers at an accelerated pace. We’ve seen predictions from top analyst firms signaling the rapid rate of adoption of an MDR provider by 2025...

Expanded Coverage and AWS Compliance Pack Updates in InsightCloudSec Coming Out of AWS Re:Invent 2023

It seems like it was just yesterday that we were in Las Vegas for AWS Re:Invent, but it’s already been almost two weeks since the conference wrapped up. As is always the case, AWS unveiled a host of new services throughout the week, including advancements around serverless, artificial intelligenc...

Manage Enterprise Risk at Scale with a Unified, Holistic Approach

The rapid pace of technological change and the attendant rise of cyber threats in both speed and number leave most organizations at a disadvantage. Historically, many firms faced this challenge simply by purchasing more technology in the hopes that the latest threat protection software would keep...

GhostLocker - A “Work In Progress” RaaS

This post was also authored by Anna Širokova Executive Summary In recent years, there has been a noticeable uptick in threat actors venturing into the realm of Ransom-as-a-Service RaaS. Some have emerged as significant threats, while others have faded into obscurity. What makes the current...

Is That Smart Home Technology Secure? Here’s How You Can Find Out.

As someone who likes the convenience of smart home Internet of Things IoT technology, I am regularly on the lookout for products that meet my expectations while also considering security and privacy concerns. Smart technology should never be treated differently than how we as consumers look at...

A Look at Our Development Process of the Cloud Resource Enrichment API

In today's ever-evolving cybersecurity landscape, detecting and responding to cyber threats is paramount for organizations in cloud environments. At the same time, investigating cyber threat alerts can be arduous due to the time-consuming and complex process of data collection. To tackle this pai...

The Velociraptor 2023 Annual Community Survey

By Dr. Mike Cohen & Carlos Canto Velociraptor is an open-source project led and shaped by the community. Over the years, Velociraptor has become a real force in the field of DFIR, making it an obvious choice for many operational situations. Rapid7 is committed to continue making Velociraptor the...

Center for Internet Security (CIS) unveils Azure Foundations Benchmark v2.0.0

The Center for Internet Security CIS recently unveiled the latest version of their Azure Foundations Benchmark—Version 2.0.0. This is the first major release since the benchmark was originally released more than 4 years ago, which could lead you to believe that this update would come with a bunch...

Executive Webinar: Confronting Security Fears to Control Cyber Risk

Last week, Rapid7 presented part one of a webinar called “Confronting Security Fears to Control Cyber Risk”. The webinar, which is available on demand, focused on cybersecurity simplicity and why everyone associated with your organization must develop a cybersecurity mindset. To do so, CISOs must...

Understanding the Ecosystem of Smart Cities for the Purpose of Security Testing

Is there a defined ecosystem, similar to what we encountered with the Internet of Things IoT, that can be charted out as it relates to smart city technology and its security implications? While evaluating IoT I struggled with defining what IoT is. I found that there were varying definitions out...

ICYMI: 10 Cybersecurity Acronyms You Should Know in 2023

Cybersecurity is acronym-heavy to say the least. If you’re reading this, you already know. From CVE to FTP, we in IT love our abbreviations, FR FR. Truthfully though, it can be a bit much, and even the nerdiest among us miss a few. So, In Case You Missed It, here are 10 cybersecurity acronyms you...

What's New in InsightIDR: Q3 2022 in Review

This Q3 2022 recap post takes a look at some of the latest investments we've made to InsightIDR to drive detection and response forward for your organization. 360-degree XDR and attack surface coverage with Rapid7 The Rapid7 XDR suite — flagship InsightIDR, alongside InsightConnect SOAR, and Thre...

Velociraptor Version 0.6.6: Multi-Tenant Mode and More Let You Dig Deeper at Scale Like Never Before

Rapid7 is excited to announce the release of version 0.6.6 of Velociraptor – an advanced, open-source digital forensics and incident response DFIR tool that enhances visibility into your organization’s endpoints. After several months of development and testing, we are excited to share its powerfu...

VeloCON 2022: Digging Deeper Together!

September 15, 2022 | Live at 9 am EDT | Virtual and Free Join the open-source digital forensics and incident response DFIR community for a day-long, virtual summit as we DIG DEEPER TOGETHER! Have you ever wanted to share your passion and interest in Velociraptor with the rest of the community?...

5 Steps for Dealing With Unknown Environments in InsightVM

Trying to deal with a large network can be difficult. All too often, engineers and admins don't know the full scope of their environment and have trouble defining the actual subnets and the systems that exist on those subnets. They know of a couple /24 subnets here or there, but it's very possibl...

Are Your Apps Exposed? Know Faster With Application Discovery in InsightAppSec

“Yes, I know what applications we have publicly exposed.” How many times have you said that with confidence? I bet not too many. With the rapid pace of development that engineering teams can work at, it is becoming increasingly difficult to know what apps you have exposed to the internet, adding...

Building Cybersecurity KPIs for Business Leaders and Stakeholders

In the final part of our “Hackers 're Gonna Hack” series, we’re discussing how to bring together parts one and two of operationalising cybersecurity together into an overall strategy for your organisation, measured by key performance indicators KPIs. In part one, we spoke about the problem, which...

Deploy tCell More Easily With the New AWS AMI Agent

Rapid7's tCell is a powerful tool that allows you to monitor risk and protect web applications and APIs in real time. Great! It's a fundamental part of our push to make web application security as strong and comprehensive as it needs to be in an age when web application attacks account for roughl...

What's New in InsightIDR: Q2 2022 in Review

This Q2 2022 recap post takes a look at some of the latest investments we've made to InsightIDR to drive detection and response forward for your organization. New interactive HTML reports InsightIDR's new HTML reports incorporate the interactive features you know and love from our dashboards...

Unsung Security Superheroes: You’re Now Sung

Get your copy of Rapid7’s first comic: XDR vs. Exploito. Available now! We’re all more connected than ever, and security practitioners keep everyone – governments, organizations, businesses, and 4.95 billion people – as safe as they can be. “XDR vs Exploito” isn’t “Dr. Strange and the Multiverse ...

2022 Cloud Misconfigurations Report: A Quick Look at the Latest Cloud Security Breaches and Attack Trends

Every year, Rapid7's team of cloud security experts and researchers put together a report to review data from publicly disclosed breaches that occurred over the prior year. The goal of this report is to unearth patterns and trends in cloud-related breaches and persistent exposures, so organizatio...

3 Ways InsightIDR Customers Leverage the MITRE ATT&CK Framework

The MITRE ATT&CK framework is one of the most comprehensive and reputable knowledge bases of known adversary tactics, pragmatic mitigation strategies, and prudent detection recommendations available today. ATT&CK is freely available and widely used by defenders in industry and government to find...

7 Rapid Questions: Growing From BDR to Commercial Sales Manager With Maria Loughrey

Welcome back to 7 Rapid Questions, our blog series where we hear about the great work happening at Rapid7 from the people who are doing it across our global offices. For this installment, we sat down with Maria Loughrey, Commercial Sales Manager for the UK and Ireland at our Reading, UK office...

Securely Advancing in the Sunshine State: Rapid7 Announces Tampa Office Opening

In our quest to create a safer digital world for all, Rapid7 is also on a mission to reimagine the future of work, culture, and talent — admittedly, we've set the bar pretty high for ourselves. But that's part of the spirit of Never Done, one of our core values. We're always striving to do better...

Hands-On IoT Hacking: Rapid7 at DefCon IoT Village, Part 1

This year, Rapid7 participated at the IoT Village during DefCon29 by running a hands-on hardware hacking exercise, with the goal of exposing attendees to concepts and methods for IoT hacking. Over the years, these exercises have covered several different embedded device topics, including how to u...

Behind the Scenes: Under the Hoodie 2020 Video Series

Longtime fans of our Under the Hoodie video series may have noticed that this year’s videos looked, well, a little different. Because we were all working from home amid the COVID-19 pandemic, we realized that it was no longer feasible to sit down in person and interview our pen testing services...

What’s New in InsightAppSec and tCell: Q3 2020 in Review

Here at Rapid7, we’ve been quite busy continuously improving, expanding functionality, and testing new features for feedback with our customers across our application security portfolio. This includes InsightAppSec, our leading DAST solution, tCell by Rapid7, our next-gen cloud WAF and RASP...

Metasploit Pro 5.1 Released

Today marks the release of Metasploit Pro 5.1 - building upon the foundation laid in 5.0, adding new evasion primitives for HTTP Meterpreter payloads, support for tracking service hierarchies, a deeper and more interactive Network Topology view, and continuing our commitment to a modern, consiste...

CVE-2026-10520, CVE-2026-10523 - Multiple critical vulnerabilities affecting Ivanti Sentry

Overview On June 9, 2026, Ivanti published a security advisory for two critical vulnerabilities affecting Ivanti Sentry formerly known as MobileIron Sentry, which per the vendor website is an “in-line gateway that manages, encrypts, and secures traffic between the mobile device and back-end...

When Trusted Websites Turn Malicious: WordPress Compromises Advance Global Stealer Operation

Overview Rapid7 Labs has identified and analyzed an ongoing, widespread compromise of legitimate, potentially highly trusted WordPress websites, misused by an unidentified threat actor to inject a ClickFix implant impersonating a Cloudflare human verification challenge CAPTCHA. The lure is design...

Metasploit Wrap-Up 10/31/2025

New module content 3 ReDoc API Docs UI Exposed Author: Hamza Sahin Type: Auxiliary Pull request: 20594 contributed by HamzaSahin61 Path: scanner/http/redocexposed Description: Adds a module to detect publicly exposed ReDoc API documentation pages using read-only HTTP GET requests searching for...

Announcing Nmap 7.95 Upgrade and More Accurate Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Fingerprinting

At Rapid7, our commitment is to provide you with the most accurate and reliable scan data possible; as such, we are continuously updating our underlying technology. Today we are excited to announce an upcoming enhancement to the InsightVM scan engine, aimed at improving the accuracy of Simple...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 02/07/2025

Gathering data and improving workflows This week's release includes 2 new auxiliary modules targeting Argus Surveillance DVR and Ivanti Connect Secure. The former, contributed by Maxwell Francis, and based on the work of John Page, can be used to retrieve arbitrary files on the target's filesyste...

2024 Threat Landscape Statistics: Ransomware Activity, Vulnerability Exploits, and Attack Trends

Now that we’ve reached the end of another year, you may be looking around the cybersecurity infosphere and seeing a glut of posts offering “hot takes” on the 2024 threat landscape and predictions about what’s coming next. At Rapid7, we don’t truck in hot takes, but rather, cold hard facts. Stayin...

A Bag of RATs: VenomRAT vs. AsyncRAT

Introduction Remote access tools RATs have long been a favorite tool for cyber attackers, since they enable remote control over compromised systems and facilitate data theft, espionage, and continuous monitoring of victims. Among the well-known RATs are VenomRAT and AsyncRAT. These are open-sourc...

Rapid7 Recognized in Forrester’s 2024 Attack Surface Management (ASM) Wave Report

This week, Rapid7 was recognized as a Contender in Forrester’s report, The Forrester WaveTM: Attack Surface Management ASM Solutions Q3 2024. We’re proud to have been selected for inclusion in the report, which to us reflects a continued dedication to enabling customers to: Monitor 100% of their...

Malware Campaign Lures Users With Fake W2 Form

The following analysts contributed to the research: Evan McCann, Matt Smith, Ipek Solak, Jake McMahon Rapid7 has recently observed an campaign targeting users searching for W2 forms using the Microsoft search engine Bing. Users are subsequently directed to a fake IRS website, enticing them to...

Rapid7’s Ciara Cullinan Recognized as Community Trailblazer in Belfast Awards Program

At the 2024 Women Who Code She Rocks Awards, Rapid7 Software Engineer II Ciara Cullinan was recognized with their ‘Community Trailblazer’ award. According to Women Who Code, “This award celebrates the efforts of someone who brings people together and creates genuine connections in our tech...

Celebrating Excellence: Alex Page Recognized As a CRN 2024 Channel Chief

Congratulations to Rapid7’s Vice President of Global Channel Sales, Alex Page, who is named among the newly-announced CRN 2024 Channel Chiefs! Alex, who also received this prestigious accolade in 2023, has been recognized for his outstanding contributions and expertise in driving strategic...

There’s One Last Gift Under the Tree, It’s Hands-On IoT!

It’s the holiday season and since we’re in a giving mood we thought we’d surprise our loyal readers with a fun, hands-on hardware exercise to enjoy during some well-earned downtime. But first, a little background. Every year Rapid7 has a pretty solid presence at DefCon in Las Vegas. This year was...