Takeaways From The Take Command Summit: Unprecedented Threat Landscape

The Rapid7 Take Command summit unveiled crucial findings from the 2024 Attack Intelligence Report, offering invaluable insights for cybersecurity professionals navigating today's complex threat landscape. Key takeaways from the 30 minute panel: 1. Rise of Zero-Day Exploits: 53% of mass compromise...

AI Trust Risk and Security Management: Why Tackle Them Now?

Co-authored by Sabeen Malik and Laura Ellis In the evolving world of artificial intelligence AI, keeping our customers secure and maintaining their trust is our top priority. As AI technologies integrate more deeply into our daily operations and services, they bring a set of unique challenges tha...

Layered Defense to Stop Attacks Before they Begin

Ransomware has evolved from opportunistic attacks to highly orchestrated campaigns driven by cyber criminals who are seeking high financial gains. Ransomware-as-a-Service has increased due to its lowered barrier to entry, allowing even those with limited technical expertise to launch devastating...

USF College of Engineering Presents Rapid7 With 2024 Corporate Impact Award

This past Friday, April 19, the University of South Florida USF College of Engineering recognized individuals and organizations who have greatly impacted USF and beyond at its ninth annual Engineering Honors Awards at The Armature Works in Tampa. I had the honor of joining my colleagues, includin...

2023 Ransomware Stats: A Look Back To Plan Ahead

Last year was not a year for the faint of heart. Organizations of every size found themselves faced with ransomware attacks at varying levels of sophistication, yet every one of them was damaging. And as we step into 2024, the first victims of ransomware attacks are already being reported. What c...

We Asked ChatGPT for 2024 Cybersecurity Predictions but You Should Make These Resolutions Instead

By Caitlin Condon, Senior Manager, Vulnerability Research at Rapid7, and Christiaan Beek, Senior Director, Threat Analytics at Rapid7 It’s that time of year again — time for the annual tradition of cybersecurity predictions. Here at Rapid7 we’ve seen a whole lot of threats and exploited...

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...

The Risks of Exposing DICOM Data to the Internet

Introduction Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine DICOM is the international standard for the transmission, storage, retrieval, print, and display of medical images and related information. While DICOM has revolutionized the medical imaging industry, allowing for enhanced patient care...

Managing Risk Across Hybrid Environments with Executive Risk View

Over the last decade or so, organizations of all shapes and sizes across all industries have been going through a seismic shift in the way they engage with their customers and deliver their solutions to the market. These new delivery models are often underpinned by cloud services, which can chang...

Alerting Rules!: InsightIDR Raises the Bar for Visibility and Coverage

By George Schneider, Information Security Manager at Listrak I've worked in cybersecurity for over two decades, so I've seen plenty of platforms come and go—some even crash and burn. But Rapid7, specifically InsightIDR, has consistently performed above expectations. In fact, InsightIDR has become...

Four Signs You Need to Consolidate Your Tech Stack

Recently, Gartner surveyed security professionals and found that over 50% of the respondents were looking to consolidate their security tech stack. Why? These professionals recognized that security vendor consolidation is key to achieving their goals of improving productivity, visibility, and...

Anarchy in the UK? Not Quite: A look at the cyber health of the FTSE 350

The attack surface of the United Kingdom's 350 largest publicly traded companies has—drum roll, please—improved. But it could be better. Those are the high level findings of the latest in Rapid7's looks at the cybersecurity health of companies tied to some of the globe's largest stock indices. Th...

7 Rapid Questions: Lindsey Searle

Welcome back to 7 Rapid Questions, our blog series where we ask passionate leaders at Rapid7 to give us an inside look at what it’s like to work on their team, and how they’re creating an impact every day. In this installment, we talk to Lindsey Searle, Senior Manager, Customer Advisors on how he...

Executive Webinar: Confronting Security Fears to Control Cyber Risk, Part Two

Part two of Confronting Security Fears to Control Cyber Risk was presented live on March 9th for EMEA and will be delivered on March 16th for APAC. The 40-minute session focuses on the importance of developing cybersecurity elasticity. In the session, Jason Hart, Rapid7’s Chief Technology Officer...

Rapid7 and USF: Building a diverse cybersecurity workforce is not optional

By Raj Samani and Peter Kaes Today marks an important day for Rapid7, for the state of Florida, and if we may be so bold, for the future of our industry. The announcement of a joint research lab between Rapid7 and the University of South Florida USF reaffirms our commitment to driving a deeper...

Year in Review: Rapid7 Threat Intelligence

In an evolving threat landscape, non-stop alerts and more IOC feeds don’t guarantee better protection. Security teams are overwhelmed and struggle to identify relevant threat information. Thankfully, Threat Command delivers highly contextual alerts and integration across your environment to help...

The 2022 Naughty and Nice List

It's the holiday season when children all over the world cross their fingers in the hope that they don't end up on a certain red-clad big man's naughty list. Turns out, we at Rapid7 have a similar tradition, only we're the ones making the list and there's a whole lotta naughty going on not like...

[The Lost Bots] S02E06: Play “Experts or Scuttlebutt?” With Us

!\The Lost Bots\ S02E06: Play “Experts or Scuttlebutt?” With Ushttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2022/12/The-Lost-Bots-logo-large.png As the year winds down, Jeffrey Gardner, Detection and Response Practice Advisor and Stephen Davis, Lead D&R Sales Technical Advisor, collected predictions th...

Tis the Season to Be Wary: Three Holiday Shopping Scams To Watch For

Chestnuts roasting on an open fire, scammers nipping at your bank account… that might not be the carol you were expecting, but unfortunately it’s the frosty truth. Most everyone has tons of shopping to do in preparation for holidays, whether they’re buying gifts, decorations, or tickets to visit...

How a Principal Engineer Made His Journey to Cloud Security With Rapid7

The first programming language I learned in my childhood was Pascal. I was 12 years old at the time, and I quickly developed a passion for technology. From a young age, I always knew I wanted to learn engineering and computer science. I wanted to solve big design and architecture problems while...

Cybersecurity Analysts: Job Stress Is Bad, but Boredom Is Kryptonite

Years ago, “airline pilot” used to be a high-stress profession. Imagine being in personal control of equipment worth millions hurtling through the sky on an irregular schedule with the lives of all the passengers in your hands. But today on any given flight, autopilot is engaged almost 90% of the...

[VIDEO] An Inside Look at Black Hat 2022 From the Rapid7 Team

!\VIDEO\ An Inside Look at Black Hat 2022 From the Rapid7 Teamhttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2022/08/black-hat-vlog.jpg Of all the cybersecurity conferences that fill up our summertime schedules, Hacker Summer Camp — the weeklong series of security events in Las Vegas that includes BSides...

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...

7 Rapid Questions: Meet Adrian Stewart, Aspiring Pilot Turned Product Manager

Welcome back to 7 Rapid Questions, our blog series where we ask passionate leaders at Rapid7 how they’re challenging convention and making an impact. In this installment, we talk to Adrian Stewart, a product manager working on InsightAppSec, Rapid7’s dynamic application security testing DAST tool...

Velociraptor Version 0.6.3: Dig Deeper With More Speed and Scalability

Rapid7 is very excited to announce the latest Velociraptor release 0.6.3. This release has been in the making for a few months now and has several exciting new features. Scalability and speed have been the main focus of development since our previous release. Working with some of our larger...

Building Threat-Informed Defenses: Rapid7 Experts Share Their Thoughts on MITRE ATT&CK

MITRE ATT&CK is considered by practitioners and the analyst community to be the most comprehensive framework of cybersecurity attacks and mitigation techniques available today. MITRE helps the security industry speak the same language and stick to a well-known, common framework. To get more detai...

[Security Nation] Michael Daniel on the Cyber Threat Alliance

!\Security Nation\ Michael Daniel on the Cyber Threat Alliancehttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2021/10/securitynationlogo.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, Jen and Tod chat with Michael Daniel, president and CEO of the Cyber Threat Alliance CTA, as well as a co-chair on the IST’s...

Metasploit Wrap-Up

Credential gatherers, mix-ins, oh my! We're excited that Metasploit now includes support for 28 related post modules for gathering credentials based on the PackRat toolset. This is a continuation of 5433, 11700, and 11719. It was developed by community contributors Kazuyoshi Maruta, Daniel...

The Ransomware Killchain: How It Works, and How to Protect Your Systems

Much ado has been made by this very author on this very blog! about the incentives for attackers and defenders around ransomware. There is also a wealth of information on the internet about how to protect yourself from ransomware. One thing we want to avoid losing sight of, however, is just how w...

A step closer to stronger federal IoT security

On Tuesday September 15th, the US House unanimously passed the IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act H.R. 1668. The bill, sponsored by Reps. Kelly and Hurd, would require federal procurement and use of IoT devices to conform to basic security requirements. The version passed by the House makes severa...

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...

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...

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...

The Dark Side of Efficiency: When Network Controllers Become "God Mode" for Attackers

Imagine you build a massive corporate campus with every security control money can buy. Blast resistant doors. Biometric scanners. Guards at every entrance. Maybe something similar to the infamous Death Star. On paper, it looks fantastic. Then, somewhere along the way, somebody decides the...

Metasploit Wrap-Up 01/09/2026

RISC-V Payloads This week brings more RISC-V payloads from community member bcoles. One provides a new adapter which allows RISC-V payloads to be converted to commands and delivered as a Metasploit fetch-payload. The second is a classic bind shell, offering the user interactive connectivity to th...

MongoBleed CVE-2025-14847: Critical Memory Leak in MongoDB Allowing Attackers to Extract Sensitive Data

Overview On December 19, 2025, MongoDB Inc. disclosed a critical new vulnerability, CVE-2025-14847, which has since been dubbed MongoBleed. This vulnerability is a high-severity unauthenticated memory leak affecting MongoDB, one of the world's most popular document-oriented databases. While...

CVE-2025-64446: Critical Vulnerability in Fortinet FortiWeb Exploited in the Wild

Overview On October 6, 2025, the cyber deception company Defused published a proof-of-concept exploit on social media that was captured by one of their Fortinet FortiWeb Manager honeypots. FortiWeb is a Web Application Firewall WAF product that is designed to detect and block malicious traffic to...

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...

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...

BlackSuit Continues Social Engineering Attacks in Wake of Black Basta’s Internal Conflict

Executive Summary There has been a significant decrease in social engineering attacks linked to the Black Basta ransomware group since late December 2024. This lapse also included the leaked Black Basta chat logs in February 2025, indicating internal conflict within the group. Despite this, Rapid...

THE NEW Rapid7 MDR for Enterprise: Tailored Detection and Response for Complex Environments

Complex ecosystems. Custom applications. Specialized log sources. Distributed operations. Enterprise security leaders aren’t just defending against threats—they’re navigating a fragmented environment where visibility, coverage, and coordination are constant challenges. Our MDR service provides...

Metasploit Wrap-Up 03/21/2025

SMB to LDAP Relay This week, the Metasploit team have added an exciting relay module that has been in the works for a long time. This relay module is used to host an SMB server, and execute an SMB to LDAP relay attack against a Domain controller with an LDAP server when NTLMv1 is being used as th...

Secure Your Attack Surface: Key Findings from IDC's 2024 Spotlight Report

Rapid7 recently collaborated with IDC on their comprehensive Attack Surface Management Spotlight guide. These Spotlight publications deliver expert analyst perspectives on critical business and technology challenges, emerging industry trends, and innovative solutions. We're pleased to share IDC...

Multiple Zero-Day Vulnerabilities in Broadcom VMware ESXi and Other Products

On Tuesday, March 4, 2025, Broadcom published a critical security advisory VMSA-2025-0004 on 3 new zero-day vulnerabilities affecting multiple VMware products, including ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion. The most severe of the vulnerabilities is CVE-2025-22224, a critical vulnerability in ESXi and...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 02/21/2025

BeyondTrust exploit + fetch payload updates This Metasploit release includes an exploit module that chains two vulnerabilities, one exploited in the wild by APT groups and another one, a 0-day discovered by Rapid7 during the vulnerability analysis. This week's release also includes a significant...

Take Command Summit: Take Breaches from Inevitable to Preventable on May 21

Registration is now open for Take Command, a day-long virtual summit in partnership with AWS. You do not want to miss it. You’ll get new attack intelligence, insight into AI disruption, transparent MDR partnerships, and more. In 2024, adversaries are using AI and new techniques, working in gangs...

Rapid7 Insight Platform Achieves Level 2 TX-Ramp Authorization

Authored by Damon Cabanillas Rapid7's Insight Platform has officially achieved Level 2 Texas Risk and Authorization Management Program TX-RAMP authorization. This milestone marks a significant step forward in providing our customers peace-of-mind as well as the best end-to-end cloud security...

Privacy, Security, and Connected Devices: Key Takeaways From CES 2024

The topic of data privacy has become so relevant in our age of smart technology. With everything becoming connected, including our homes, workplaces, cities, and even our cars, those who develop this technology are obligated to identify consumers' expectations for privacy and then find the best...

Updates to Layered Context Enable Teams to Quickly Understand Which Risk Signals Are Most Pressing

Layered Context introduced a consolidated view of all security risks insightCloudSec collects from the various layers of a cloud environment. This enabled our customers to go from visibility into individual security risks on a resource, to understanding all of the risks that impacted that resourc...

Unlock Broader Detections and Forensics with Velociraptor in Rapid7 XDR

Nearly 70% of companies that are breached are likely to get breached again within twelve months CPO. Effective remediation and addressing attacks at the root is key to staying ahead of threats and recurring breaches on the endpoint. Strong Digital Forensics and Incident Response DFIR ready to go...