A Look Into Remote Onboarding at Rapid7

Picture this; you accept a new role and walk in on your first day with jitters. You swing the double doors open and are welcomed by the fresh scent of kombucha on tap and the buzz of office chatter. The front desk receptionist welcomes you with a warm “hello!” and a freshly brewed tea or coffee. ...

What's New in DivvyCloud by Rapid7: February 2021 Feature Releases

February was another busy month. Internally, as we work to improve our processes, we are still committed to maintaining our frequent release cadence. Our releases, both minor and major, ensure that customers have access to valuable improvements, features, expanded support capabilities, and bug...

Congress unanimously passes federal IoT security law

The US Senate unanimously passed the IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act H.R.1668 yesterday. The US House passed the bill in September, so it is highly likely to become law, barring a Presidential veto. This is arguably the most significant US IoT-specific cybersecurity law to date, as well as the...

Patch Tuesday - August 2026

Microsoft is publishing 421 vulnerabilities on August 2026 Patch Tuesday, including 236 vulnerabilities in Windows. This is lower volume than last month’s record-breaking behemoth, but still one of the largest Patch Tuesday totals ever. There is no reason to suppose that Patch Tuesday will ever...

Rapid7 Analysis: KindaRails2Shell (CVE-2026-66066)

Overview On July 29, 2026, the Ruby on Rails project published a security advisory for CVE-2026-66066, an arbitrary file read in Active Storage applications that use the Vips image processor with untrusted uploads. The affected Active Storage ranges are = 8.0, = 8.1, 8.1.3.1. Vips is the default...

Active Exploitation of Oracle PeopleSoft Zero-Day (CVE-2026-35273)

Overview On June 10, 2026, Oracle published a security alert for CVE-2026-35273, a critical vulnerability in the Updates Environment Management component of PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools. Oracle released an out-of-band patch the same day as the advisory, underscoring the urgency of remediatio...

Patch Tuesday - April 2026

Microsoft is publishing 167 vulnerabilities on April 2026 Patch Tuesday. Microsoft is aware of exploitation in the wild for one of today’s vulnerabilities, and public disclosure for one other. Microsoft evaluates 19 of the vulnerabilities published today as more likely to see future exploitation...

Before the Breach: When digital footprints become a strategic cyber risk

Overview For years, organizations have prioritized strengthening technical defenses, including hardening networks, accelerating patch management, and expanding endpoint detection and response capabilities. Defensive systems have become more adaptive, identity has moved to the center of security...

Metasploit Wrap-Up 02/20/2026

Hacking Churches and Backdooring Emacs This release packs some solid exploit module additions! Two new unauthenticated RCE modules are a major win: the StoryChief WordPress plugin exploit CVE-2025-7441 targets a webhook validation flaw allowing arbitrary file uploads, while the ChurchCRM exploit...

Patch Tuesday - December 2025

Microsoft is publishing a relatively light 54 new vulnerabilities this December 2025 Patch Tuesday, which is significantly lower than we have come to expect over the past couple of years. Today’s list includes two publicly disclosed remote code vulnerabilities, and a single exploited-in-the-wild...

React2Shell (CVE-2025-55182) - Critical unauthenticated RCE affecting React Server Components

Overview Update 1: As of 4:30 PM Eastern, December 4, 2025, Rapid7 has validated that a working weaponizedproof-of-concept exploit ,shared by researcher@maple3142 , is now publicly available. Update 2: On December 5, 2025,Lachlan Davidson who discovered the vulnerability has also published...

Rapid7: 7 years of recognition in Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for SIEM

We’re proud to share that Rapid7 has been recognized in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Security Information and Event Management SIEM. This is the seventh year we have been positioned in this report, which means we’ve been recognized in every report following the launch of our SIEM offering,...

CVE-2025-20333, CVE-2025-20362, CVE-2025-20363 - Multiple critical vulnerabilities affecting Cisco products

Overview On September 25, 2025, Cisco published advisories for three notable vulnerabilities affecting many different Cisco products. Two of these vulnerabilities, CVE-2025-20333 and CVE-2025-20362, are known to be exploited in the wild, and CVE-2025-20363 is at high risk for exploitation in the...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 11/01/2024

Pool Party Windows Process Injection This Metasploit-Framework release includes a new injection technique deployed on core Meterpreter functionalities such as process migration and DLL Injection. The research of a new injection technique known as PoolParty highlighted new ways to gain code...

The Take Command Summit: A Stacked Agenda, and Killer Guest Speakers Coming Your Way May 21

By now you should have heard about Take Command, Rapid7’s day-long virtual summit on May 21 bringing together some of the best minds in the cybersecurity sphere for comprehensive discussions on the latest data, challenges, and opportunities in the industry. It’s an opportunity to expand your...

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...

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...

Ransomware-as-a-Service Cheat Sheet

Ransomware-as-a-Service, or RaaS, has taken the threat landscape by storm — so much so that in 2023, the White House re-classified ransomware as a national security threat. How has RaaS taken the impact of ransomware attacks to this next level of federal concern? By allowing potential...

Detect and Prioritize Identity-Related Cloud Risk with InsightCloudSec

In modern cloud environments, roles and permissions are assigned not just to human users, but to machines, resources and services, as well. The massive scale of cloud environments leads to teams potentially managing millions of distinct identities. As a result, security teams often struggle to...

[The Lost Bots] S03E03. The Rise of The Machines

!\The Lost Bots\ S03E03. The Rise of The Machineshttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2023/05/CWfxAaUmZV248bvr4yKaK2.jpg Artificial Intelligence AI is both a profound topic and now, a practical one too: cybersecurity marketers in particular are loving the letters “A” an “I.” But exactly where a...

Cloud Security Strategies for Healthcare

How to Stay Secure in the Cloud While Driving Innovation and Discovery The healthcare industry is undergoing a transformational shift. Health organizations are traditionally entrenched in an on-prem way of life, but the past three years have plunged them into a digital revolution. A heightened...

Dated, Vulnerable, Insecure Tech Is All Over the News. Hooray.

Save the links. Pass them around. And consider getting your copy of the new 2023 XDR Buyer’s Guide—because if this isn’t a time for reckoning and progress, what is? The news: on Wednesday, the United States grounded all flights coast-to-coast for the first time since 9/11. The Federal Aviation...

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...

Velociraptor Version 0.6.7: Better Offline Collection, Encryption, and an Improved NTFS Parser Dig Deeper Than Ever

By Mike Cohen and Carlos Canto Rapid7 is excited to announce the release of version 0.6.7 of Velociraptor – an advanced, open-source digital forensics and incident response DFIR tool that enhances visibility into your organization’s endpoints. This release has been in development and testing for...

7 Rapid Questions with Toshio Honda, Sr. Security Solutions Engineer

Toshio Honda, Sr. Security Solutions Engineer You have been with Rapid7 for 4 years now, what originally attracted you to work here? I worked for a cybersecurity company who is a leader for the “Prevention” area prior to joining Rapid7, and I was looking for the next opportunity based on 3...

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...

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...

3 Mistakes Companies Make in Their Detection and Response Programs

The goal of a detection and response D&R program is to act as quickly as possible to identify and remove threats while minimizing any fallout. Many organizations have identified the need for D&R as a critical piece of their security program, but it's often the hardest — and most costly — piece to...

How One Engineer Upskilled Into a Salesforce Engineering Role at Rapid7

At Rapid7, we believe the growth and development of our people enables us to better serve customers who depend on us. When our Engineering team was searching for candidates to help with our Salesforce ecosystem, John Millar demonstrated many of our core values – most importantly, the appetite to...

[The Lost Bots] Season 2, Episode 2: The Worst and Best Hollywood Cybersecurity Depictions

!\The Lost Bots\ Season 2, Episode 2: The Worst and Best Hollywood Cybersecurity Depictionshttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2022/07/The-Lost-Bots-logo-large.png Welcome back to The Lost Bots! In this episode, our hosts Jeffrey Gardner, Detection and Response D&R Practice Advisor, and Stephe...

What We’re Looking Forward to at AWS re:Inforce

AWS re:Inforce 2022 starts tomorrow — Tuesday, July 26th — and we couldn't be more excited to gather with the tech, cloud, and security communities in our home city of Boston. Here's a sneak peek of the highlights to come at re:Inforce and what we're looking forward to the most this Tuesday and...

4 Key Statistics to Build a Business Case for an MDR Partner

From one person to the next, the word “impact” may have wildly different connotations. Is the word being used in a positive or negative sense? For an understaffed security organization attempting to fend off attacks and plug vulnerabilities, the impact of all of that work is most likely negative:...

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...

SIEM and XDR: What’s Converging, What’s Not

Let’s start with the conclusion: Security incident and event management SIEM isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. Today, most security analysts are using their SIEMs for detection and response, making it the core tool within the security operations center SOC. SIEM aggregates and monitors critical...

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...

2021 Cybersecurity Superlatives: An InsightIDR Year in Review

We laughed, we cried, we added over 750 new detections. It's been a rollercoaster of a year for everyone. So let's have some fun with our 2021 year in review — shall we? The last year was an exciting one for InsightIDR, Rapid7's industry-leading extended detection and response XDR and SIEM...

2022 Planning: Simplifying Complex Cybersecurity Regulations

Compliance does not equal security, but it’s also true that a strong cybersecurity program meets many compliance obligations. How can we communicate industry regulatory requirements in a more straightforward way that enhances understanding while saving time and effort? How can we more easily...

InsightCloudSec Supports 12 New AWS Services Announced at re:Invent

In case you didn’t hear, Amazon hosted AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas last week. As has come to be expected at the annual mega-event, Amazon made a number of huge announcements and launched a significant number of improvements and brand-new services and settings to enhance their public cloud platform...

Rapid7 Technical Support: Building a Career Path With Endless Possibilities

At Rapid7, our Technical Support teams deliver a world-class support experience to our customers across the globe. We have Support Moose on 4 continents, in 10 offices, and across 8 time zones, but we're all one herd. So, how do we achieve this? We swarm on cases together each day, we collaborate...

Zero Chaos: Scaling Detection Engineering at the Speed of Software, with Detection As Code

Every engineering team in your organization ships code through a pipeline. They branch, test, review, and deploy. If something breaks, they roll back. If someone asks "what changed?", the answer is in the commit history. This isn't heroic discipline to process; it's just how software gets built...

The Face of Penetration Testing is Changing: Announcing Metasploit Pro 5.0.0

The role and demand for red-teaming capabilities are growing, as more exploitable CVEs make their way into criminal hands. Being proactive is no longer a capability that can be reserved for annual tests, but a continuous assessment to determine exposure and even through the validation of an...

The Post-RAMP Era: Allegations, Fragmentation, and the Rebuilding of the Ransomware Underground

Executive summary The January 2026 seizure of RAMP disrupted a major ransomware coordination hub, but it did not dismantle the ecosystem behind it. Instead, it destabilized trust and accelerated fragmentation across the underground. Rather than consolidating around a single successor, ransomware...

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...

CVE-2026-1731: Critical Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution in BeyondTrust Remote Support (RS) and Privileged Remote Access (PRA)

Overview On February 6, 2026, BeyondTrust released security advisory BT26-02, disclosing a critical pre-authentication Remote Code Execution RCE vulnerability affecting its Remote Support RS and Privileged Remote Access PRA products. Assigned CVE-2026-1731 and a near-maximum CVSSv4 score of 9.9,...

Patch Tuesday - October 2025

Microsoft is publishing 172 new vulnerabilities today. Microsoft is aware of public disclosure for just two of the vulnerabilities published today, and claims no evidence of in-the-wild exploitation. Today sees six zero-day vulnerabilities patched, but only a single one is evaluated as critical...

Microsoft 365 Direct Send Abuse

The Rapid7 MDR team has observed a significant rise in the number of threat actors leveraging a lesser-known feature within Microsoft 365 called Direct Send. Rapid7 encourages organizations to immediately review their authenticated mail flow configurations, specifically related to Microsoft 365...

5 Things Security Leaders Need to Know About Agentic AI

From writing assistance to intelligent summarization, generative AI has already transformed the way businesses work. But we’re now entering a new phase where AI doesn’t just generate content, but takes independent action on our behalf. This next evolution is called ‘agentic AI’, and it’s moving...

Black Basta Ransomware Campaign Drops Zbot, DarkGate, and Custom Malware

Executive Summary Beginning in early October, Rapid7 has observed a resurgence of activity related to the ongoing social engineering campaign being conducted by Black Basta ransomware operators. Rapid7 initially reported the discovery of the novel social engineering campaign back in May, 2024,...

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...

Assessing Container Images Across Private Registries with InsightCloudSec

In the rapidly evolving landscape of software development and deployment, containerization has emerged as a game-changing technology and a de-facto foundation for the majority of modern applications. Containers allow developers to package applications and their dependencies into a single, portabl...