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...

Sunsetting the Public AttackerKB Platform

What’s changing, where AttackerKB-style analysis will live, and how users can continue finding Rapid7 vulnerability intelligence. On August 18, Rapid7 will sunset the standalone public AttackerKB website as part of a broader effort to unify our vulnerability intelligence, exploit analysis, and...

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...

Attackers accelerate, adapt, and automate: Rapid7’s Q3 2025 Threat Landscape Report

The Q3 2025 Threat Landscape Report, authored by the Rapid7 Labs team, paints a clear picture of an environment where attackers are moving faster, working smarter, and using artificial intelligence to stay ahead of defenders. The findings reveal a threat landscape defined by speed, coordination,...

Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile exploit chain exploited in the wild

On May 13, 2025, Ivanti disclosed an exploited in the wild exploit chain, comprising of two new vulnerabilities affecting Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile EPMM: CVE-2025-4427 and CVE-2025-4428. Ivanti EPMM is an enterprise-focused software suite for IT teams to manage mobile devices, applications,...

Recognizing Excellence: Rapid7’s Kelly Hiscoe and Heather DeMartini Honored as CRN’s 2025 Women of the Channel

We are thrilled to announce that two outstanding Rapid7 team members, Kelly Hiscoe and Heather DeMartini, have been recognized as CRN's 2025 Women of the Channel. This prestigious recognition honors innovative and strategic leaders that demonstrate commitment to advancing channel excellence and...

From Noise to Action: Introducing Intelligence Hub

Co-authored by Raj Samani Chief Scientist & Craig Adams Chief Product Officer In traditional conflicts, intelligence is both integral and beneficial to decision-making at every level. Unfortunately, in cybersecurity, the impact of threat intelligence as an asset for organizations—and in particula...

Rapid7 MDR Supports AWS GuardDuty's New Attack Sequence Alerts

Co-authored by Yaron Kaplan and Gil Shamgar. AWS GuardDuty has introduced two powerful new alerts that enhance its threat detection capabilities: "Potential Credential Compromise" and "Potential S3 Data Compromise." These alerts go beyond traditional threat detection by focusing on attack...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 03/14/25

New module content 1 InvoiceShelf unauthenticated PHP Deserialization Vulnerability Authors: Mickaël Benassouli, Rémi Matasse, and h00die-gr3y Type: Exploit Pull request: 19950 contributed by h00die-gr3y Path: linux/http/invoiceshelfunauthrcecve202455556 AttackerKB reference: CVE-2024-55556...

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...

The Main Components of an Attack Surface Management (ASM) Strategy

In part one of this blog series, we looked at some of the core challenges that are driving the demand for a new approach to Attack Surface Management. In this second blog I explore some of the key technology approaches to ASM and also some of the core asset types we need to understand. We can bre...

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...

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...

Rapid7 Recognized by Newsweek as one of ‘America’s Greatest Workplaces for Diversity for 2024’.

On December 13th, Newsweek Magazine published their list of ‘America’s Greatest Workplaces for Diversity for 2024’. Like many companies today, Rapid7 recognizes the positive impact diversity plays in driving organizational success, attracting and retaining exceptional talent, and creating positiv...

NEW RESEARCH: Artificial intelligence and Machine Learning Can Be Used to Stop DAST Attacks Before they Start

Within cloud security, one of the most prevalent tools is dynamic application security testing, or DAST. DAST is a critical component of a robust application security framework, identifying vulnerabilities in your cloud applications either pre or post deployment that can be remediated for a...

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...

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...

Rapid7 Threat Command Delivered 311% ROI: 2023 Forrester Consulting Total Economic Impact™ Study

Volume up and not in a good way Security teams must continuously contort their efforts to effectively respond to the growing volume of cyberthreats. These constantly shifting methods in the security operations center SOC can be difficult to manage in the face of emerging external threats—it can b...

Build Security Muscle Memory With Tabletop Exercises

When I was in grade school, I played football. I was scrawny and afraid to go up against anyone bigger than I was essentially everyone. I always hated Oklahoma drills and scrimmages with my team. For quite some time, I avoided “the tunnel” hoping to evade facing the bigger linemen. My coach sat m...

A Deep Dive into Reversing CODESYS

Industrial Control System ICS networking stacks are often the go-to bogeyman for infosec and cybersecurity professionals, and doubly so for offensive, red-team style security folks. How often have you been new on site, all ready to run a bog-standard nmap scan across the internal address space,...

Trading Convenience for Credentials

Tap. Eat. Repeat. Regret? Using food or grocery delivery apps is great. It really is. Sure, there’s a fee, but when you can’t bring yourself to leave the house, it’s a nice treat to get what you want delivered. As a result, adoption of food apps has been incredibly fast and they are now a...

Gartner® Report: Questions to Ask When Selecting an MDR Provider

Measuring against the right criteria The “right” criteria is whatever works to further your security organization’s specific needs in detection and response D&R. There’s only so much budget to go around—and successfully obtaining a significant year-over-year increase can be rare. The last thing...

Powerlifting in the Cybersecurity Skills Gap

All the reasons Is there too much to do with too little talent? If your SOC hasn’t been running smoothly in a while, there’s likely multiple reasons why. As a popular slang phrase goes these days, it’s because of “all the reasons.” Budget, talent churn, addressing alerts all over the place; you...

InsightIDR Launches Integration With New AWS Security Data Lake Service

It has been an action-packed day at AWS re:Invent. For security professionals, one of the most exciting announcements has to be the launch of Amazon Security Lake. We see a lot of potential for this new service, which is why Rapid7 is proud to announce the immediate availability of an integration...

Rapid7 and HashiCorp Partner to Secure Terraform-based Cloud Infrastructure Deployments

Welcome to the latest installment in our cloud security “shift-left” blog series. In our last post, we covered the importance of integrating cloud infrastructure security assessments into DevOps tools and enabling Infrastructure as Code IaC developers. This time, we’re focusing on Rapid7’s recent...

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...

Cloud IAM Done Right: How LPA Helps Significantly Reduce Cloud Risk

Authored by Sanjeev Williams and Ryan Blanchard Today almost all cloud users, roles, and identities are overly permissive. This leads to repeated headlines and forensic reports of attackers leveraging weak identity postures to gain a foothold, and then moving laterally within an organization's...

A SIEM With a Pen Tester's Eye: How Offensive Security Helps Shape InsightIDR

To be great at something, you have to be a little obsessed. That's true whether you want to be a chess grandmaster, become an internationally recognized CEO, or build the best cybersecurity platform on the planet. At Rapid7, our laser-focus has always been trained on one thing: helping digital...

Real-Time Risk Mitigation in Google Cloud Platform

With Google Cloud Next happening this week, there’s been some recent water cooler talk - okay, informal, ad hoc Zoom calls - where discussions about what makes Google Cloud Platform GCP unique when it comes to security. A few specific differences have popped up here and there default data...

How to Accelerate Your SOAR Program to Full Speed in Less Than a Year

Every new technology comes with a learning curve specific to your organization. First you learn the basics, then you accelerate. Rapid7’s offerings are no different. As a Senior Information Security Engineer at Brooks, I have firsthand experience with this process. I oversaw the implementation of...

360-Degree XDR and Attack Surface Coverage With Rapid7

Today’s already resource-constrained security teams are tasked with protecting more as environments sprawl and alerts pile up, while attackers continue to get stealthier and add to their arsenal. To be successful against bad actors, security teams need to be proactive against evolving attacks in...

[Security Nation] Jen and Tod on Hacker Summer Camp 2022

!\Security Nation\ Jen and Tod on Hacker Summer Camp 2022https://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2022/08/securitynationlogo-1.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, Tod and Jen chat about their experience at this year’s Hacker Summer Camp, the multi-event lineup of cybersecurity conferences in La...

No Damsels in Distress: How Media and Entertainment Companies Can Secure Data and Content

Streaming is king in the media and entertainment industry. According to the Motion Picture Association’s Theatrical and Home Entertainment Market Environment Report, the global number of streaming subscribers grew to 1.3 billion in 2021. Consumer demand for immediate digital delivery is...

The Future of the SOC Is XDR

Extended detection and response XDR is increasingly gaining traction across the industry. In a new research ebook sponsored by Rapid7, SOC Modernization and the Role of XDR, ESG identified that 61% of security professionals claim that they are very familiar with XDR technology. While this is an...

Rapid7 MDR Reduced Breaches by 90% via Greater Efficiency to Detect, Investigate, Respond to, and Remediate Breaches

When a security operations center SOC is operating at a deficit, they increase the possibility of beach reductions. That is, the likelihood they won’t be able to travel to any beaches – or any vacation destinations whatsoever – anytime in the near future. That can lead to burnout, which can lead ...

[Security Nation] Steve Micallef of SpiderFoot on Open-Source Intelligence

!\Security Nation\ Steve Micallef of SpiderFoot on Open-Source Intelligencehttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2022/06/securitynationlogo-1.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, Jen and Tod chat with Steve Micallef about SpiderFoot, the open-source intelligence tool of which he is the creato...

Defending Against Tomorrow's Threats: Insights From RSAC 2022

The rapidly changing pace of the cyberthreat landscape is on every security pro's mind. Not only do organizations need to secure complex cloud environments, they're also more aware than ever that their software supply chains and open-source elements of their application codebase might not be as...

The Average SIEM Deployment Takes 6 Months. Don’t Be Average.

If you’re part of the huge growth in demand for cloud-based SIEM Security Information and Event Management, claim your copy of the new Gartner® Report: “How to Deploy a SIEM Solution Successfully.” Depending on what SIEM you choose, and how you approach the process, getting to operational and...

What It Takes to Securely Scale Cloud Environments at Tech Companies Today

In January 2021, foreign trade marketing platform SocialArks was the target of a massive cyberattack. Security Magazine reported that the rapidly growing startup experienced a breach of over 214 million social media profiles and 400GB of data, exposing users' names, phone numbers, email addresses...

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...

[Security Nation] David Rogers on IoT Security Legislation

!\Security Nation\ David Rogers on IoT Security Legislationhttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2022/03/securitynationlogo-1.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, Jen and Tod chat with David Rogers, CEO at Copper Horse Ltd., about the Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure PST...

[Security Nation] Amit Serper on Finding Leaks in Autodiscover

!\Security Nation\ Amit Serper on Finding Leaks in Autodiscoverhttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2022/02/securitynationlogo.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, Jen and Tod chat with Amit Serper, Director of Security Research at Akamai, on his work uncovering a flaw in the Autodiscover...

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...

A Matter of Perspective: Agent-Based and Agentless Approaches to Cloud Security, Part 2

In our previous blog on this topic, we discussed some of the considerations when choosing between agent-based and agentless cloud security approaches. The following table provides a summary of these considerations. Aspect | Agent-based | Agentless ---|---|--- Deployment | - Deployed on every asse...

Solving the Access Goldilocks Problem: RBAC for InsightAppSec Is Here

We're all familiar with the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Goldilocks starts a new job as a security specialist on the security team at Three Bears' Porridge, Inc. and is given access to their application security platform. At first, the access she's given is far too broad. It causes...

SOAR Tools: What to Look for When Investing in Security Automation Tech

Security orchestration and automation SOAR refers to a collection of software solutions and tools that organizations can leverage to streamline security operations in three key areas: threat and vulnerability management, incident response, and security-operations automation. From a single platfor...

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...

Rapid7 Analysis: Microsoft SharePoint JWT Token Authentication Bypass (CVE-2026-55040)

Overview On July 14, 2026, Rapid7 and Microsoft disclosed CVE-2026-55040, an authentication bypass vulnerability affecting Microsoft SharePoint. Today we are publishing a technical analysis of the vulnerability along with an accompanying proof-of-concept PoC script. Figure 1: The Rapid7 Labs PoC...

Weekly Metasploit Update: NTLM Relay Priv Esc, MCP Server Integration, Paperclip AI RCE Chain, and more

This week's release includes five new modules, including a full unauthenticated RCE chain for Paperclip AI and a VS Code extension persistence technique. On the post-exploitation side, the new windows/local/ntlmrelay2self module coerces the local machine account to authenticate via...