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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Japanese Financial Services Attack Landscape

Recently, we released a major report analyzing the threat landscape of Japan, the globe’s third largest economy. In that report we looked at the ways in which threat actors infiltrate Japanese companies spoiler alert: it is often through foreign subsidiaries and affiliates and some of the most...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

Adapting existing VM programs to regain control

Stop me if you’ve heard this before. The scale, speed and complexity of cloud environments — particularly when you introduce containers and microservices — has made the lives of security professionals immensely harder. While it may seem trite, the reason we keep hearing this refrain is because,...

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...

[The Lost Bots] S02E03: Browser-in-Browser Attacks — Don't Get (Cat)-Phished

!\The Lost Bots\ S02E03: Browser-in-Browser Attacks — Don't Get \Cat-Phishedhttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2022/08/The-Lost-Bots-logo-large.png Welcome back to The Lost Bots! In our latest episode, we're talking about phishing attacks — but not your standard run-of-the-mill version...

[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...

A Year on from the Ransomware Task Force Report

If you follow cybersecurity, you’ve likely seen one of the many articles written recently on the one-year anniversary of the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack, which saw fuel delivery suspended for six days, disrupting air and road travel across the southeastern states of the US. The Colonial...

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...

Why Security in Kubernetes Isn't the Same as in Linux: Part 1

Kubernetes was first presented in 2014, and it almost entirely changed the way technological and even non-tech companies use infrastructure for running their applications. The Kubernetes platform still feels new and exciting — it has awesome features and can fit most use cases. But hackers find t...

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...

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...

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...

To the Left: Your Guide to Infrastructure as Code for Shifting Left

It's the cloud's world now, and we're all just living in it. The mass migration of organizational infrastructure to the cloud isn't slowing down any time soon — and really, why would it? Cloud computing has allowed developers to move at vastly greater speeds than ever before. And this in turn let...

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...

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...

Metasploit Wrap-Up 05/15/2026

Weaponizing a text editor for fun and profit Gather round, dear readers, because today, we by we, we mean @h00die dropped the ultimate persistence mechanism: Vim plugin persistence. And honestly, calling it "persistence" feels redundant — Vim is already the most persistent thing ever. Somewhere,...

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...

Metasploit Wrap-Up 03/13/2026

No bad luck here: Friday the 13th brings new modules and a Metasploit Pro milestone This week’s Metasploit Framework release delivers three new modules across reconnaissance, evasion, and exploitation: LeakIX-powered discovery for exposed services and leaked data, a Linux x64 RC4 payload packer f...

Rapid7 Detection Coverage for Iran-Linked Cyber Activity

The tension arising out of the conflict in Iran is beginning to show signs of expanding beyond a strictly regional crisis. Following our recent published advisories, this communication is intended to outline and summarize the detection and enrichment coverage available to Rapid7 customers, broadl...

Rapid7 Analysis: CVE-2026-20127

CVE-2026-20127: Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Authentication Bypass Overview On 25th February 2026, Cisco published an advisory for CVE-2026-20127, a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in the vdaemon service of Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN formerly Viptela. The flaw allows an unauthenticated, remote...

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...

Threat Landscape of the Building and Construction Sector Part Two: Ransomware

In this second installment of our two-part series on the construction industry, Rapid7 is looking at the specific threat ransomware poses, why the industry is particularly vulnerable, and ways in which threat actors exploit its weaknesses to great effect. You can catch up on the first part here:...

Patch Tuesday - November 2025

Microsoft is publishing 66 new vulnerabilities today, which is far fewer than we’ve come to expect in recent months. There’s a lone exploited-in-the-wild zero-day vulnerability, which Microsoft assesses as critical severity, although there’s apparently no public disclosure yet. Three critical...

Threat Landscape of the Building and Construction Sector, Part One: Initial Access, Supply Chain, and the Internet of Things

In 2025, the construction industry stands at the crossroads of digital transformation and evolving cybersecurity risks, making it a prime target for threat actors. Cyber adversaries, including ransomware operators, organized cybercriminal networks, and state-sponsored APT groups from countries su...