InsightCloudSec Supports the Recently Updated NSA/CISA Kubernetes Hardening Guide

The National Security Agency NSA and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA recently updated their Kubernetes Hardening Guide, which was originally published in August 2021. With the help and feedback received from numerous partners in the cybersecurity community, this guide...

What's New in InsightIDR: Q1 2022 in Review

Introducing new InsightIDR capabilities to accelerate your detection and response program When we talk to customers and security professionals about what they need more of in their security operations center SOC, there is one consistent theme: time. InsightIDR — Rapid7's leading cloud SIEM and XD...

4 Fallacies That Keep SMBs Vulnerable to Ransomware, Pt. 2

This post is co-authored by Chris Henderson, Senior Director of Information Security at Datto, Inc. Welcome back for the second and final of our blogs on the fallacies and biases that perpetuate ransomware risk for SMBs. In part one, we examined how flawed thinking and a sense of helplessness are...

7Rapid Questions: Stephen Donnelly

At Rapid7, there's no shortage of passionate leaders looking to challenge convention and make an impact. Our "7Rapid Questions" series is a way to highlight some of the amazing work taking place behind the scenes, and the exciting growth opportunities available in our global offices. For this...

2022 Cybersecurity Predictions: The Experts Clear Off the Crystal Ball

As we walk through the doorway of 2022, it's hard not to wish at least some among us had the gift of cosmic foresight. Many most? of the questions we thought in 2021 that we'd have answered by this point — chief among them, when will COVID finally leave us alone??? — still seem to elude us. In...

[Security Nation] Chris John Riley on Minimum Viable Secure Product (MVSP)

!\Security Nation\ Chris John Riley on Minimum Viable Secure Product \MVSP\https://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2021/11/securitynationlogo--1--2.jpg In the final installment of Season 4 of Security Nation, Jen and Tod sit down with Chris John Riley, senior security engineer at Google and co-hos...

Announcing the 2021 Metasploit Community CTF

It’s time for another Metasploit community CTF! Last year’s beginner-friendly CTF attracted a wider range of audiences and skill levels than in previous years, so we’re replicating our previous game architecture. Players will attack a single Linux target, we’ve spread prizes out across 15 teams,...

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...

Cloud Challenges in the Age of Remote Work: Rapid7’s 2021 Cloud Misconfigurations Report

A lot changed in 2020, and the way businesses use the cloud was no exception. According to one study, 90% of organizations plan to increase their use of cloud infrastructure following the COVID-19 pandemic, and 61% are planning to optimize the way they currently use the cloud. The move to the clo...

Rapid7 Releases Q2 2020 Quarterly Threat Report

It’s hard to believe it’s already the end of September, and with it comes Rapid7’s Q2 2020 Quarterly Threat Report. As in previous quarters, our Rapid7 research team produced this report by analyzing the data from our internet telemetry-gathering systems Project Sonar and Project Heisenberg, as...

AI is Working in the SOC. So Why are Security Executives More Worried Than Ever?

Something shifted in security operations over the last two years: AI stopped being a pilot program and became the plan. And if you survey 500 security professionals on whether that's going well – as Omdia did, commissioned by Rapid7 – you get a remarkable level of consensus: 97% report positive...

Kyber Ransomware Double Trouble: Windows and ESXi Attacks Explained

Overview For executive leadership, the emergence of Kyber ransomware represents a significant and immediate threat due to its specialized, dual-platform deployment capability targeting mission-critical virtualization infrastructure VMware ESXi and core Windows file systems. This cross-platform...

Metasploit Wrap-Up 02/27/2026

No Prob-ollama This release brings some serious firepower with multiple new exploit modules and critical vulnerability support! The standout additions are the Ollama path traversal RCE CVE-2024-37032, a sophisticated exploit chaining arbitrary file writes into unauthenticated root RCE, and the...

Critical Cisco Catalyst Vulnerability Exploited in the wild (CVE-2026-20127)

Overview On February 25, 2026, Cisco disclosed a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in Cisco Catalyst SD‑WAN Controller and Cisco Catalyst SD‑WAN Manager, tracked as CVE‑2026‑20127, that allows an unauthenticated attacker to gain administrative access to affected systems. The Cisco...

Key Takeaways from the Take Command Summit 2025: From Zero to Hero: Building the Perfect Defense

At Take Command 2025, bold ideas and fresh thinking took center stage — in particular in our opening talk From Zero to Hero: Building the Perfect Defense. Led by Ted Harrington, Executive Partner at ISE, and hosted by Thom Langford, EMEA CTO at Rapid7, this session challenged security leaders to...

Deepening the MDR partnership: Rapid7 now delivers Active Remediation with Velociraptor

Rapid7 is expanding its response capabilities to meet the demands and relentless pace of today’s threat landscape – and the operational needs of our customers. Partnership means many things to us here at Rapid7. It means showing up with trusted expertise, providing clear guidance in moments of...

The 2024 Ransomware Landscape: Looking back on another painful year

The ransomware landscape in 2024 continued to evolve at a rapid pace, outgrowing many of the trends we saw in 2023. Threat actors remained relentless and innovative, targeting organizations of all sizes and sectors. In this post, we’ll examine the latest data points, discuss notable groups, and...

Metasploit Wrap-Up 01/10/2025

New module content 5 OneDev Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Read Authors: Siebene and vultza Type: Auxiliary Pull request: 19614 contributed by vultza Path: gather/onedevarbitraryfileread AttackerKB reference: CVE-2024-45309 Description: This adds an exploit module for an unauthenticated arbitrary...

Illuminating the Shadows: Managing the Risks of Shadow AI in Modern Enterprises

Understanding the challenge of Shadow AI Shadow AI – a dramatic term for a new problem. With the rise of widely available consumer level AI services with easy-to-use chat interfaces, anyone from the summer intern to the CEO can easily use these shiny and new AI products. However, anyone who’s eve...

New Cloud Risk Dashboard: Identifying Toxic Combinations to Drive Faster Remediation

Co-authored by Andrea Ruddy Risks identified within a cloud environment compound to represent a real threat of exploitation. Our cloud risk scoring, introduced recently to insightCloudSec, focuses on these toxic combinations. Toxic combinations are attractive for bad actors who can target multipl...

From Top Dogs to Unified Pack

Embracing a consolidated security ecosystem Authored by Ralph Wascow Cybersecurity is as unpredictable as it is rewarding. Each day often presents a new set of challenges and responsibilities, particularly as organizations accelerate digital transformation efforts. This means you and your cyber...

7 Rapid Questions with #77 Ray Bourque

We couldn’t pass up the opportunity to bring Boston Bruins legend Ray Bourque into the herd as we continue to expand our Bruins jersey sponsorship. Ray is an absolute hero to Bruins fans everywhere. He has cemented his status in the annals of Boston sports history through 21 seasons in the black...

Setup of Discovery Connection Azure

By: fuzzy borders Are you having trouble trying to get your Azure assets into your InsightVM security console? In this blog post, we wanted to bring additional insight into leveraging the Azure Discovery Connection with InsightVM. This blog post is brought to you by the Fuzzy Borders project, who...

Three Security Vendor Consolidation Myths Debunked

When it comes to security vendor consolidation, Gartner found that 57% of organizations are working with fewer than ten security vendors, utilizing consolidation to cut costs and improve their overall security posture. But what about the other 43%? While security vendor consolidation has many...

PenTales: There Are Many Ways to Infiltrate the Cloud

At Rapid7 we love a good pen test story. So often they show the cleverness, skill, resilience, and dedication to our customer’s security that can only come from actively trying to break it! In this series, we’re going to share some of our favorite tales from the pen test desk and hopefully...

3 Steps for Ramping Up to Fully Automated Remediation

The number one threat to cloud security is misconfiguration of resources, and frankly, it's not hard to understand why. The cloud is getting bigger, more tangled, and flat-out more unmanageable by the day. In modern Amazon Web Services AWS environments, there are typically millions of resources...

[The Lost Bots] S03E01: Tech Stack Consolidation and Bacon

!\The Lost Bots\ S03E01: Tech Stack Consolidation and Baconhttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2023/03/The-Lost-Bots-logo-large.png It’s 2023, and according to Gartner, ESG, and everybody else, the vendor consolidation trend continues. Throwing tools at the problem isn’t working well, and...

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...

GraphQL Security: The Next Evolution in API Protection

GraphQL is an open-source data query and manipulation language that can be used to build application program interfaces APIs. Since its initial inception by Facebook in 2012 and subsequent release in 2015, GraphQL has grown steadily in popularity. Some estimate that by 2025, more than 50% of...

Culture Fitness

Have you checked in on the overall health of your team lately? What would a new hire think of your current team? Companies all over the world – particularly those of the higher-profile variety – tout their positive cultures and how great it is to be part of the team. This is especially true in th...

New MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK® Evaluation: Rapid7 MDR Excels

Every Managed Services organization claims they have the expertise and technology to effectively detect and respond to threats. But can they prove it? Assessing these services and how they’d perform in a real-world scenario just got easier with results from the first ever MITRE ATT&CK Evaluations...

One Year After IntSights Acquisition, Threat Intel’s Value Is Clear

Rapid7 Strengthens Market Position With 360-Degree XDR and Best-in-Class Threat Intelligence Offerings Time flies… and provides opportunities to establish proof points. After recently passing the one-year milestone of Rapid7’s acquisition of IntSights, the added value threat intelligence brings t...

Avoiding Smash and Grab Under the SEC’s Proposed Cyber Rule

The SEC recently proposed a regulation to require all public companies to report cybersecurity incidents within four days of determining that the incident is material. While Rapid7 generally supports the proposed rule, we are concerned that the rule requires companies to publicly disclose a cyber...

ISO 27002 Emphasizes Need For Threat Intelligence

With employees reluctant to return to the office following the COVID-19 pandemic, the concept of a well-defined network perimeter has become a thing of the past for many organizations. Attack surfaces continue to expand, and as a result, threat intelligence has taken on even greater importance...

[Security Nation] Pete Cooper and Irene Pontisso on the Results of the UK Government’s Security Culture Challenge

!\Security Nation\ Pete Cooper and Irene Pontisso on the Results of the UK Government’s Security Culture Challengehttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2022/07/securitynationlogo.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, Jen and Tod are joined again by Pete Cooper and Irene Pontisso of the UK...

Two Rapid7 Solutions Take Top Honors at SC Awards Europe

LONDON—We are pleased to announce that two Rapid7 solutions were recognized on Tuesday, June 21, at the prestigious SC Awards Europe, which were presented at the London Marriott, Grosvenor Square. InsightIDR took the top spot in the Best SIEM Solution category, and Threat Command brought home the...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

vCenter Secret Extracter Expanding on the work of the vcenterforgesamltoken auxiliary module, community contributor npm-cesium137-io has added a new module for extracting the vmdir/vmafd certificates, the IdP keypair, the VMCA root cert, and anything from vmafd that has a private key associated,...

Identifying Cloud Waste to Contain Unnecessary Costs

Cloud adoption has exploded over the past decade or so, and for good reason. Many digital transformation advancements – and even the complete reimagination of entire industries – can be directly mapped and attributed to cloud innovation. While this rapid pace of innovation has had a profound impa...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

PetitPotam Improvements Metasploit’s Ruby support has been updated to allow anonymous authentication to SMB servers. This is notably useful while exploiting the PetitPotam vulnerability with Metasploit, which can be used to coerce a Domain Controller to send an authentication attempt over SMB to...

What's Changed for Cybersecurity in Banking and Finance: New Study

Cybersecurity in financial services is a complex picture. Not only has a range of new tech hit the industry in the last 5 years, but compliance requirements introduce another layer of difficulty to the lives of infosec teams in this sector. To add to this picture, the overall cybersecurity...

Russia/Ukraine Conflict: What Is Rapid7 Doing to Protect My Organization?

Rapid7 is monitoring the escalating conflict in Ukraine, and we have provided a blog on the various attack vectors organizations may see, as well as guidance on mitigations and remediations. To assist with your preparation and response efforts, Rapid7 is continuously integrating into our products...

How Ransomware Is Changing US Federal Policy

In past decades, attackers breaching systems and stealing sensitive information prompted a wave of regulations focused on consumer privacy and breach notification. The current surge in ransomware attacks is prompting a new wave of action from policymakers. Unlike the more abstract harms threatene...

[Security Nation] Pete Cooper and Irene Pontisso of the UK Cabinet Office on Their Cybersecurity Culture Competition

!\Security Nation\ Pete Cooper and Irene Pontisso of the UK Cabinet Office on Their Cybersecurity Culture Competitionhttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2021/11/securitynationlogo--1-.jpg In this special bonus episode of Security Nation, Jen and Tod chat with Pete Cooper and Irene Pontisso fro...

SANS 2021 Threat Hunting Survey: How Organizations' Security Postures Have Evolved in the New Normal

It's that time of year once again: The SANS Institute — the most trusted resource for cybersecurity research — has conducted its sixth annual Threat Hunting Survey, sponsored by Rapid7. The goal of this survey is to better understand the current threat hunting landscape and the benefits provided ...

Rapid7 Announces Partner of the Year Awards 2021 Winners

Over the past year and more, we’ve lived through the most extraordinary, turbulent, and challenging times we’ll likely experience in our lifetime. Yet through all the uncertainty, our partners have continued to show determination, drive, and commitment, performing at an exceptional level. With th...

The Story Behind Security Breaches

There are many potential causes of security breaches, including malicious attacks, system glitches, equipment failures, software bugs, and zero days. What is a common root cause here? Human error. According to Micke Ahola, “In a security context, human error means unintentional actions—or lack of...

Metasploit Wrap Up: Payloads and Exploits, and Scanners, Oh my!

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Rapid7 Analysis: Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution in JetBrains TeamCity (CVE-2026-63077)

Overview On July 27, 2026, JetBrains published a security advisory for CVE-2026-63077, a critical unsafe deserialization vulnerability affecting JetBrains TeamCity. An attacker who can reach a TeamCity server over HTTP or HTTPS can exploit the agent polling protocol without credentials and execut...

Weekly Metasploit Update: Exploits for FlowiseAI CSV Agent and MacOS Package Kit

More AI, more software, more bugs! AI, it's all you hear about nowadays and everyone's got an opinion on it. Here at Metasploit, we care less about those opinions and more about the growing attack surface all this new software brings with it yeehaw exploits!. Take for example the new Flowise CSV...

Beyond the Score: Using AI to Translate CVEs into Real-World Business Risk

Security leaders rarely struggle to gather data, but they often struggle to turn that data into something clear and meaningful for the business. In a typical week, a CISO might receive a report listing hundreds or even thousands of vulnerabilities, most of them accompanied by CVSS scores that mak...