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...

Navigating AWS Migration: Achieving Clarity and Confidence

Migrating workloads to Amazon Web Services AWS represents a significant strategic opportunity, enabling greater agility, scalability, and potential for innovation. But undertaking this transition without a comprehensive strategy for visibility and security can introduce unforeseen risks,...

Retail Under Siege: What Recent Cyber Attacks Tell Us About Today’s Threat Landscape

When several major UK organizations, including well-known retail brands, found themselves caught in a cyber attack earlier this year, it made headlines. But this incident wasn’t the first, and it won’t be the last. It reflects a growing trend where attackers exploit third-party vendors to breach...

Metasploit Wrap-Up 05/02/2025

Meterpreter Extended API Clipboard Monitoring Security is hard, and Open Source Security is a collaborative effort. This week, Metasploit released a fix for a vulnerability that was privately disclosed to us by long-time community member bcoles. The vulnerability in question impacted Metasploit...

Inside the Mind of the Attacker: A Conversation with Raj Samani

With Take Command 2025 just around the corner, we sat down with Raj Samani, Chief Scientist at Rapid7, for a preview of his upcoming session: Inside the Mind of an Attacker: Navigating the Threat Horizon. Raj will be joined by Trent Teyema, Founder and President at CSG Strategies and former head ...

Seeing The Whole Picture: A Better Way To Manage Your Attack Surface

Do you trust your view of your organization’s risk? With cloud adoption, remote work, shadow IT, and AI, security teams face an overwhelming challenge: scoping their attack surface and continuously discovering all assets and exposures before threats emerge. This aligns with the critical first ste...

Perfect Fit or Business Threat? How to Mitigate the Risk of Rogue Employees

Rogue employees present significant financial and cybersecurity risks to organizations. Rapid7 threat researchers and penetration testers are actively observing how malicious actors exploit hiring pipelines to infiltrate businesses. This blog highlights real-world tactics, including: Insider...

Rapid7 Extends AWS Support to Include Coverage for Newly-Launched Resource Control Policies (RCPs)

In today’s cloud-first world, security and innovation go hand-in-hand. Rapid7 is excited to announce our support for Amazon Web Services’ AWS new Resource Control Policies RCPs, a powerful tool designed to bolster security controls for organizations using AWS infrastructure. As a launch partner f...

The Importance of Asset Context in Attack Surface Management.

This is the last of the four blogs Help, I can’t see! A Primer for Attack Surface Management Blog Series, The Main Components of an Attack Surface Management ASM Strategy, and Understanding your Attack Surface: Different Approaches to Asset Discovery covering the foundational elements of Attack...

Understanding your Attack Surface: Different Approaches to Asset Discovery

Over the past two blogs Help, I can’t see! A Primer for Attack Surface Management Blog Series and The Main Components of an Attack Surface Management ASM Strategy in our series on Attack Surface Management, we’ve focused on the drivers and core elements of an Attack Surface Management solution. I...

Expanding the Security Horizon: Introducing Rapid7 MDR for the Extended Ecosystem

As the cybersecurity landscape gets more complex, the stakes for keeping organizations safe have never been higher. Security teams are tasked with keeping ahead of new ransomware groups, rapidly evolving adversary tactics, and their dynamic attack surface as their business grows. Security...

The Growing Importance of Exposure Management: Our Key Insights from Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Security Operations, 2024

The Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Security Operations, 2024 was published in late July, and is an interesting look at the dynamic nature of both the threat landscape and the diverse range of technologies that security & risk management SRM professionals use to safeguard their organizations...

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...

Buying Stuff For Free From Shopping Websites

Rapid7 is often tasked with evaluating the security of e-commerce sites. When dealing directly with customer financials, the security of these transactions is a top concern. Fortunately, there are ample pre-built e-commerce platforms one can simply purchase or install. From an attacker’s...

Takeaways From The Take Command Summit: Understanding Modern Cyber Attacks

In today's cybersecurity landscape, staying ahead of evolving threats is crucial. The State of Security Panel from our Take Command summit held May 21st delved into how artificial intelligence AI is reshaping cyber attacks and defenses. The discussion highlighted the dual role of AI in...

The Take Command Summit: A Day of Resilience and Preparation

The Take Command Summit is officially in the books. It was a day-long virtual powerhouse of major voices and ultra-relevant topics from across the entire cybersecurity spectrum. We are super proud of the event and grateful for all who joined us for these important discussions. At Rapid7 we are...

See a Sneak Peek of Tuesday’s Take Command Summit

In just a few short days, some of the best minds in cybersecurity will come together at Take Command to discuss the most pressing challenges and opportunities we face as an industry. The sessions include in-depth discussions on attacker trends and behaviors, a look into the Rapid7 SOC, top guest...

Patch Tuesday - May 2024

Microsoft is addressing 61 vulnerabilities this May 2024 Patch Tuesday. Microsoft has evidence of in-the-wild exploitation and/or public disclosure for three of the vulnerabilities published today. At time of writing, two of the vulnerabilities patched today are listed on CISA KEV. Microsoft is...

Why The External Attack Surface Matters: An analysis into APAC related threat activities

Co-authors are Robin Long and Raj Samani Considerable focus within the cybersecurity industry has been placed on the attack surface of organizations, giving rise to external attack surface management EASM technologies as a means to monitor said surface. It would appear a reasonable approach, on t...

Lessons from video game companies: automation unleashes robust monitoring & observability

Video game organizations need robust monitoring and observability solutions to stay one step ahead of cyber adversaries. Chances are, so do we all. In this blog post, we’ll delve into how monitoring and observability capabilities enable video game organizations to bolster their cybersecurity...

PenTales: What It’s Like on the Red Team

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 sharing some of our favorite tales from the pen test desk and hopefully highlight som...

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...

Rapid7 Sales Director Devin Poulter On Building a Career as an Account Executive

Devin Poulter is a Sales Director with over 20 years of experience in the tech industry. Recently, we asked him a few questions to learn more about how he built his career, what it’s like to lead a team at Rapid7, and more. You’ve been in software sales for most of your career, what can you tell ...

Casting a Light on Shadow IT in Cloud Environments

What is Shadow IT? The term “Shadow IT” refers to the use of systems, devices, software, applications, and services without explicit IT approval. This typically occurs when employees adopt consumer products to increase productivity or just make their lives easier. This type of Shadow IT can be...

Rapid7 Recognized as a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave™ for MDR, Q2 2023

Rapid7 recognized amongst the top MDR providers in the industry. As security teams try to do more with less, addressing the sprawling attack surface and monitoring the escalating threat and risk landscape, it inherently leaves them at a disadvantage. Rapid7 Managed Threat Complete empowers...

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...

MITRE ATT&CK® Mitigations: Thwarting Cloud Threats With Preventative Policies and Controls

As IT infrastructure has become more and more sophisticated, so too have the techniques and tactics used by bad actors to gain access to your environment and sensitive information. That’s why it's essential to implement robust security measures to protect your organization. One way to do this is ...

3 Ways to Apply a Risk-Based Approach to Threat Detection, Investigation, and Response: Gartner® Report

In an ongoing effort to help security organizations gain greater visibility into risk, we’re pleased to offer this complimentary Gartner® report, 3 Ways to Apply a Risk-Based Approach to Threat Detection, Investigation, and Response. This insightful research can help a security organization reali...

Hallmark Channel: Securing the Season

How Crown Media protects its crown jewel It’s that time of year again…chestnuts roasting on an open-fire, kids making wish-lists, and company holiday parties where you can showcase your most outlandish ugly sweater. It’s also the time of year we all get a little bit less cynical and take in a...

Rapid7 Recognized as a Top Place to Work for 11th Consecutive Year

On November 30th, 2022, Rapid7 was again recognized by The Boston Globe as a Top Place to Work in Massachusetts. This marks the 11th consecutive year Rapid7 has made the list, this time coming in at 3 in the large company category. Top Places to Work rankings are based on a Globe survey that...

Get your head in the cloud(s)

Many organizations are in the midst of adopting the cloud faster than ever before; it’s arguably mission critical for their success and longevity. Just look at initiatives like digital transformation or even the digital twin which aims to bridge the gap between the physical and the digital by...

Unifying Threat Findings to Elevate Your Runtime Cloud Security

The widespread growth in cloud adoption in recent years has given businesses across all industries the ability to transform and scale in ways never before possible. However, the speed of those changes, combined with the drastically increased volume and complexity of resources in cloud environment...

Reducing Risk In The Cloud with Agentless Vulnerability Management

In order to gain visibility into vulnerabilities in their public cloud environments, many organizations still rely on agent or network-based scanning technology that was initially built for traditional infrastructure and endpoints. These methods often struggle to keep up with the speed of change...

Rapid7 Takes Home 2 Awards and a Highly Commended Recognition at the 2022 Belfast Telegraph IT Awards

Rapid7 was honored at the Belfast Telegraph's annual IT Awards, Friday, taking home a pair of awards including the coveted “Best Place to Work in IT” in the large company category award, and the “Cyber Security Project of the Year” award, for groundbreaking machine learning research in applicatio...

Cloud Security: Buyer Be Critical

Tailoring solutions to challenges It takes a toolbox with different, well, tools to secure an ever-expanding operational perimeter in the cloud. Think about what’s under the general daily purview of cloud security teams: preventing misconfigurations, taming threats and vulnerabilities, and so muc...

[The Lost Bots] S02E05: The real magic in the Magic Quadrant

!\The Lost Bots\ S02E05: The real magic in the Magic Quadranthttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2022/10/The-Lost-Bots-logo-large.png In this episode, we discuss the best use of market research reports, like Magic Quadrants and Waves. If you're in the market for a new cybersecurity solution, d...

Simplify SIEM Optimization With InsightIDR

Two key ways InsightIDR helps customers tailor reporting, detection, and response — without any headaches For far too many years, security teams have accepted that with a SIEM comes compromise. You could have highly tailored and custom rule sets, but it meant endless amounts of tuning and...

4 Key Statistics to Build a Business Case for an MDR Partner

From one person to the next, the word “impact” may have wildly different connotations. Is the word being used in a positive or negative sense? For an understaffed security organization attempting to fend off attacks and plug vulnerabilities, the impact of all of that work is most likely negative:...

Are You in the 2.5% Who Meet This Cybersecurity Job Requirement?

Of course you’re special. So are we. But decades of research tells us humans believe they’re good multitaskers – and we are really, seriously not. It seems a measly 2.5% of us can multitask well. The rest of us are best when we focus on a single goal, allowing the left and right sides of our brai...

[Infographic] Cloud Misconfigurations: Don't Become a Breach Statistic

!\Infographic\ Cloud Misconfigurations: Don't Become a Breach Statistichttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2022/05/miconfigurations-infographic-clip2.jpg No one wants their company to be named in the latest headline-grabbing data breach. Luckily, there are steps you can take to keep your...

Reflecting on Women’s History Month at Rapid7

During Women’s History Month, we invited some of our team members to share their best advice for other women in technology, celebrate their strengths, and reflect on how they’ve challenged convention within their roles and built their networks. What is the best advice that someone has given you i...

2022 Planning: Metrics That Matter and Curtailing the Cobra Effect

During the British rule of India, the British government became concerned about the number of cobras in the city of Delhi. The ambitious bureaucrats came up with what they thought was the perfect solution, and they issued a bounty for cobra skins. The plan worked wonderfully at first, as cobra...

A Dream Team-Up: Integrate InsightAppSec With ServiceNow ITSM

At Rapid7, we are constantly improving InsightAppSec and tCell with the goal of making our customers' lives easier. Over the last few months alone, we've improved the way your team structures permissions, integrated with Microsoft's .Net 6.0, and automated authentication to make scan after scan...

Demystifying XDR: A Forrester Analyst Lays the Foundation

Extended detection and response XDR is no longer a future state in cybersecurity practice — it's a full-fledged reality for some. In fact, it's been a thing for a lot longer than you might think. Still, XDR is new vocabulary for many security operations center SOC teams, and the contours of this...

tCell by Rapid7 Supports the Newly Released .NET 6.0

We’re excited to share that we've coordinated our recent .NET and .NET Core agent releases with the brand new .NET 6.0 release from Microsoft. What is tCell? Since the founding of tCell by Rapid7, our web application and API protection solution, we’ve prided ourselves on providing both breadth an...

InsightIDR Was XDR Before XDR Was Even a Thing: An Origin Story

An origin story explains who you are and why. Spiderman has one. So do you. Rapid7 began building InsightIDR in 2013. It was the year Yahoo’s epic data breach exposed the names, dates of birth, passwords, and security questions and answers of 3 billion users. Back then, security professionals...

[Security Nation] Beau Woods and Fotios Chantzis Discuss Their New Book, "Practical IoT Hacking"

!\Security Nation\ Beau Woods and Fotios Chantzis Discuss Their New Book, https://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2021/04/securitynationlogo-63.jpg In our latest episode of Security Nation, we speak with Beau Woods and Fotios Chantzis about their newly released book, "Practical IoT Hacking." Stick...

Top Security Trends Driving Threat Detection and Response Priorities Today

The threat landscape continues to grow at a rapid pace, and organizations need security solutions that can keep up. A modern SaaS SIEM is built in the cloud, provides extended coverage across diverse data sources, and leverages automation to expedite response and containment, making it a great to...

Rapid7 Quarterly Threat Landscape Report: Zero-clicks, geopolitical tensions, and some wins for law enforcement

The first quarter of 2026 reinforced that attackers are moving faster, operating with greater coordination, and exploiting weaknesses before most organizations can respond effectively. From escalating geopolitical tensions to increasingly aggressive ransomware operations, the latest quarterly...

CVE-2026-33032: Nginx UI Missing MCP Authentication

Overview On March 30, 2026, a security advisory was published for a critical vulnerability affecting Nginx UI. Nginx UI is an open-source web interface to centralize the management of Nginx configurations and SSL certificates. The critical vulnerability, CVE-2026-33032, was reported in early Marc...