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...

Automation Enables Innovation in the Cloud

As public cloud adoption continues to grow year after year, we see more and more enterprises realizing the strategic advantage the cloud can provide to help deliver new and innovative products quicker, roll out new features with ease, and reach new customers. But along with those advantages comes...

[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...

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...

Cybercriminals Selling Access to Compromised Networks: 3 Surprising Research Findings

Cybercriminals are innovative, always finding ways to adapt to new circumstances and opportunities. The proof of this can be seen in the rise of a certain variety of activity on the dark web: the sale of access to compromised networks. This type of dark web activity has existed for decades, but i...

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...

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...

CVE-2026-18577: N-able N-central Authentication Bypass Exploited in the Wild

Overview On August 2, 2026, N-able published a security advisory for CVE-2026-18577, an authentication bypass vulnerability affecting N-central that was discovered being exploited in-the-wild after an incomplete fix for an earlier authentication bypass issue, CVE-2026-18556 was disclosed...

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...

Rapid7 Completes BSI C5 Type 2 Examination: Stronger Cloud Security for DACH Organizations

If you're a security leader operating in Germany, Austria, or Switzerland, you already know that compliance isn't a checkbox. It's a competitive differentiator. Rapid7 has completed BSI C5 Type 2 attestation for the Rapid7 Command Platform, including Threat Command, and it's a milestone worth...

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 and the Enduring Challenge of Windows’ Backwards Compatibility

Introduction If you received an email with the subject “I LOVE YOU” and an attachment called “LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT”, would you open it? Probably not, but back in the year 2000, plenty of people did exactly that. The internet learned a hard lesson about the disproportionate power available to a...

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...

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 02/14/2025

New module content 2 Unauthenticated RCE in NetAlertX Authors: Chebuya Rhino Security Labs and Takahiro Yokoyama Type: Exploit Pull request: 19868 contributed by Takahiro-Yoko Path: linux/http/netalertxrcecve202446506 AttackerKB reference: CVE-2024-46506 Description: A new module for an...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Poorly Purged Medical Devices Present Security Concerns After Sale on Secondary Market

In a post-pandemic landscape, the interconnectedness of cybersecurity is front and center. Few could say that they were not at least aware of, if not directly affected by, the downstream effects of major breaches that cause impacts felt across economies. One should look at disruptions in the glob...

How To Present SecOps Metrics (The Right Way)

SecOps metrics can be a gold mine of potential for informing better business decisions, but 78% of CEOs say they don’t have adequate data on risk exposure to make good decisions. Even when they do see the right data, 82% are inclined to “trust their gut” anyway. Here lies the disconnect between...

Cyber Asset Attack Surface Management 101

Understanding CAASM This article was written by Ethan Smart, Co-Founder and Chief Solution Architect, appNovi a Rapid7 integration partner. It's essential for security and IT teams to have a comprehensive view and control of their cyber assets. This is why Cyber Asset Attack Surface Management...

OWASP TOP 10 API Security Risks: 2023!

The OWASP Top 10 API Security Risks 2023 has arrived! OWASP's API Top 10 is always a highly anticipated release and can be a key component of API security preparedness for the year. As we discussed in API Security Best Practices for a Changing Attack Surface, API usage continues to skyrocket. As ...

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...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

The tide rolls in and out. The flood of new modules last week crested leaving ample time for documentation updates this week. The team and the community seem to have focused on getting those sweet sprinkles of information that help everyone understand Metasploit out to the world. Enhancements and...

Velociraptor Version 0.6.8 Available Now

A New Client-Server Communication Protocol, VFS GUI, and More Performance Upgrades Make This The Fastest and Most Scalable Velociraptor Yet Rapid7 is excited to announce the release of version 0.6.8 of Velociraptor—an advanced, open-source digital forensics and incident response DFIR tool that...

Practice Operations Manager Looks Back On First Five Months With Rapid7

Elianna Sfez is a Threat Intelligence Practice Operations Manager based in Rapid7’s Tel Aviv office. As she approaches her six month anniversary with the company, we sat down to chat about her new hire journey, initial impressions and experiences in her new role, Rapid7 culture, and more. Tell me...

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...

[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...

Leaked Android Platform Certificates Create Risks for Users

On November 30, 2022, a Google apvi report from Łukasz Siewierski initially filed on November 11, 2022 was made public. The report contained 10 different platform certificates and malware sample SHA256 sums where the malware sample had been signed by a platform certificate — the application signi...

Grey Time: The Hidden Cost of Incident Response

The time cost of incident response for security teams may be greater – and more complex – than we’ve been assuming. To see that in action, let’s look at a hypothetical scenario that should feel familiar to most cybersecurity analysts. An everyday story A security engineer, Casey, is tuning a SIEM...

[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...

Collaboration Drives Secure Cloud Innovation: Insights From AWS re:Inforce

This year's AWS re:Inforce conference brought together a wide range of organizations that are shaping the future of the cloud. Last week in Boston, cloud service providers CSPs, security vendors, and other leading organizations gathered to discuss how we can go about building cloud environments...

Deploying a SOAR Tool Doesn’t Have to Be Hard: I’ve Done It Twice

As the senior information security engineer at Brooks, an international running shoe and apparel company, I can appreciate the challenge of launching a security orchestration, automation, and response SOAR tool for the first time. I’ve done it at two different companies, so I’ll share some lesson...

3 Key Challenges for Cloud Identity and Access Management

Identity and access management IAM is one of the most critical tools for today's cloud-centric environment. Businesses' IT architectures have become more highly distributed than ever, and users need to access a growing suite of cloud services on demand. Determining the identities of users and...

Cloud Complexity Requires a Unified Approach to Assessing Risk

There has been an unprecedented acceleration in the shift to the cloud as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. McKinsey experts estimate companies have moved to the cloud “24 times faster ... than they thought” over the past two years. As organizations move quickly to scale, drive innovation, and...

For Ransomware Double-Extorters, It's All About the Benjamins — and Data From Healthcare and Pharma

Welcome to the second installment in our series looking at the latest ransomware research from Rapid7. Two weeks ago, we launched "Pain Points: Ransomware Data Disclosure Trends", our first-of-its-kind look into the practice of double extortion, what kinds of data get disclosed, and how the...

API Security: Best Practices for a Changing Attack Surface

API usage is skyrocketing. According to the latest State of the API Report, API requests increased by 56% last year to a total of 855 million, and Google says the growth isn’t expected to slow any time soon. APIs – short for application programming interfaces – are a critical component of how...

New Report Shows What Data Is Most at Risk to (and Prized by) Ransomware Attackers

Ransomware is one of the most pressing and diabolical threats faced by cybersecurity teams today. Gaining access to a network and holding that data for ransom has caused billions in losses across nearly every industry and around the world. It has stopped critical infrastructure like healthcare...

Demystifying XDR: The Time for Implementation Is Now

In previous installments of our conversation with Forrester Analyst Allie Mellen on all things extended detection and response XDR, she helped us understand not only the foundations of the product category and its relationship with security information and event management SIEM, but also the role...

New US Law to Require Cyber Incident Reports

The US Congress is poised to pass the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act of 2022. Once signed by the President, it will become law. The law will require critical infrastructure owners and operators to report cyber incidents and ransomware payments. The legislation was...

This CISO Isn’t Real, But His Problems Sure Are

In 2021, data breaches soared past 2020 levels. This year, it’s expected to be worse. The odds are stacked against this poor guy and you now – but a unified extended detection and response XDR and SIEM restacks them in your favor. Take a few minutes to check out this CISO’s day, and you’ll see ho...

Stay Ahead of Threats With Cloud Workload Protection

When it comes to cloud-native applications, optimal security requires a modern, integrated, and automated approach that starts in development and extends to runtime protection. Cloud workload protection CWP helps make that goal possible by bringing major structural changes to software development...

Congrats to the Winners of the 2021 Metasploit Community CTF

Thanks to everyone who participated in this year’s Metasploit community CTF! Like last year, this CTF ran over the past 4 days and invited community members to solve a series of challenges. This year saw 1,501 users registered across 727 teams. If you participated in the CTF, we have a feedback...

Thawing Out the Chilling Effect Of DMCA Section 1201

The Copyright Office has issued the latest rules on exemptions to Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act DMCA. Great news: Legal protections for independent security research have once again been meaningfully strengthened. On the whole, these protections are now significantly greate...

4 Simple Steps for an Effective Threat Intelligence Program

Threat intelligence is a critical part of an organization's cybersecurity strategy, but given how quickly the state of cybersecurity evolves, is the traditional model still relevant? Whether you're a cybersecurity expert or someone who's looking to build a threat intelligence program from the...