5 Key Insights from the Gartner® Market Guide for Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP)

As the cloud landscape continues to evolve, organizations face the growing challenge of securing their cloud-native applications. We feel the 2024 Gartner Market Guide for Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms CNAPP provides invaluable insights into the latest trends and technologies that...

Introducing the Rapid7 Command Platform

Integrated Security Operations for the Next-Generation Attack Surface As cybercrime and attack surfaces have sprawled, Rapid7 has been able to grow with our customers because we are relentlessly focused on relevance. The way we see it, relevance doesn’t mean aligning to market definitions of...

Boston Business Journal Names Rapid7 as a Best Place to Work in Boston

On June 13th, 2024, Rapid7 was recognized by The Boston Business Journal as a Best Place to Work in Boston. This marks the 13th consecutive year Rapid7 has made the list, this time coming in at 8 in the extra large company category. Best Places to Work rankings are based on anonymous employee...

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...

A Trusted Voice in a Crowded Market: Meet Joanne Guariglia, Senior Channel Account Manager at Rapid7

When you’re a seller, it’s important to represent a reputable brand and products you can stand behind. For many companies, their partners act as an extension of the sales team to help identify and engage new customers. As a Senior Channel Account Manager, Joanne Guariglia shares what she loves mo...

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...

PenTales: “User enumeration is not a vulnerability” – I beg to differ

At Rapid7 we love a good pentest 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 highlig...

Starting a Career in Tech? Learn How Rapid7’s Emerging Talent Programmes Foster Long-Term Success

Rapid7’s Emerging Talent Programmes pave the way for early career professionals to have a successful career in tech. In Belfast, we offer both an Apprentice Programme and a Placement Programme to support new talent coming into the tech field. The Apprentice Programme is designed for individuals...

XDR, the Beatles, and Blunt Instruments

Sometimes tools are blunt because there’s nothing else. Regarding economic controls for example, Fed Chair Jerome Powell said: “We have essentially interest rates, the balance sheet and forward guidance. They are famously blunt tools, they are not capable of surgical precision." Others are blunt...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Addressing the Evolving Attack Surface Part 1: Modern Challenges

Lately, we’ve been hearing a lot from our customers requesting help on how to manage their evolving attack surface. As new 0days appear, new applications are spun up, and cloud instances change hourly, it can be hard for our customers to get a full view of risk into their environments. We put...

The 2022 SANS Top New Attacks and Threats Report Is In, and It's Required Reading

The latest Top New Attacks and Threat Report from the cybersecurity experts at SANS is here — and the findings around cyberthreats, attacks, and best practices to defend against them are as critical for security teams as they've ever been. If you're unfamiliar with the SysAdmin, Audit, Network, a...

The Forecast Is Flipped: Flipping L&D Enables Managers to Be Impact Multipliers

At Rapid7, we recognize that managers are at the heart of our mission and are central to optimizing the potential of our people. So naturally, focusing on the growth and development of our manager population became critical to productivity, engagement, retention, and creating strong teams, as wel...

MDR Plus Threat Intel: 414 New Detections in 251 Days (You’re Welcome)

Last summer, Rapid7 acquired IntSights and its advanced external threat intelligence solution now Threat Command by Rapid7. Threat Command monitors hundreds of thousands of sources across the clear, deep, and dark web, identifying malicious actors and notifying customers of potential attacks...

Cloud Security and Compliance: The Ultimate Frenemies of Financial Services

Meeting compliance standards as a financial services finserv company can be incredibly time-consuming and expensive. Finserv has some of the highest regulatory bars to clear out of any industry — with the exception, perhaps, of healthcare. That said, these regulations exist for good reason. Even...

Better Together: XDR, SOAR, Vulnerability Management, and External Threat Intelligence

One of the biggest challenges with both incident response and vulnerability management is not just the raw number of incidents and vulnerabilities organizations need to triage and manage, but the fact that it's often difficult to separate the critical incidents and vulnerabilities from the minor...

[Security Nation] Michael Powell on Being a Cyber Envoy

!\Security Nation\ Michael Powell on Being a Cyber Envoyhttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2021/11/securitynationlogo--1--1.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, Jen and Tod chat with Michael Powell about his work as specialist cyber representative to North America for the UK's Department f...

2022 Planning: The Path to Effective Cybersecurity Maturity

When it comes to bringing cyber safety and resilience to all parts of your organization, there is no silver bullet. Achieving cybersecurity maturity isn't something you can do overnight — it requires a significant amount of planning, prioritizing, and coordinating across the business. While this...

This Was the Summer of AppSec: All the Improvements We Made in Q3

Summer has come to an end. The backyard barbecues are behind us, the hot dogs have all been eaten, and we're all gearing up for some awesome autumn leaf peeping. But before we fall into another season see what we did there?, we wanted to take a moment to look back on all of the improvements we've...

National Cybersecurity Awareness Month: How Security Pros Can Get Involved

Fall is a time defined by yearly rituals. For some of us, that means breaking out our favorite knit sweaters, indulging in pumpkin-flavored everything, or — in the immortal words of George Costanza — “shifting into soup mode." The information security world has its own autumnal observance: Nation...

AI is Working in the SOC. So Why are Security Executives More Worried Than Ever?

Something shifted in security operations over the last two years: AI stopped being a pilot program and became the plan. And if you survey 500 security professionals on whether that's going well – as Omdia did, commissioned by Rapid7 – you get a remarkable level of consensus: 97% report positive...

CVE-2026-0265: Authentication Bypass in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS

Overview On May 13, 2026, Palo Alto Networks published a security advisory for CVE-2026-0265, a signature verification vulnerability that facilitates authentication bypass on PAN-OS, the operating system that most Palo Alto Networks firewalls run. This vulnerability allows a remote unauthenticate...

Metasploit Wrap-Up 04/25/2026

Check Method Visibility Metasploit has supported check methods for many years now. It’s not always desirable to jump straight into exploiting a vulnerability but instead to determine if the target is vulnerable. Metasploit tries to be very conservative with classifying a target as “vulnerable”...

Metasploit Wrap-Up 04/17/2026

Happy Friday - Seven New Metasploit Modules We’re happy to announce that Metasploit Framework had a big week, landing seven new modules alongside various bug fixes and enhancements. This week’s highlights include RCE modules targeting AVideo, openDCIM, Selenium Grid/Selenoid, and ChurchCRM. On th...

Your Cloud Detection Strategy in 2026: What to Expect at the Global Cybersecurity Summit

Cloud environments have changed how security teams detect and respond to threats. Signals come from more places, identities are harder to track, and attacks rarely stay within a single system. For many teams, the challenge is no longer visibility. It is having the risk context to understand what...

Patch Tuesday - March 2026

Microsoft is publishing 77 vulnerabilities this March 2026 Patch Tuesday. Microsoft is aware of public disclosure of two of today’s vulnerabilities, but without evidence of exploitation in the wild for any yet, so there are no Microsoft additions to CISA KEV today. Earlier in the month, Microsoft...

Your MRI is Online: The Hidden Risks of Exposed DICOM Servers in UK Healthcare

Hospitals invest heavily in physical security: Clinical areas are access-controlled, sensitive rooms are locked, and patient records are governed by strict handling procedures. Network exposure does not always receive the same level of scrutiny. Rapid7 Labs identified more than 30 UK-based system...

Alert Fatigue Isn’t Going Away. Here’s How Modern SOCs Are Fighting Back

Security teams have been talking about alert fatigue for years. And yet, for many SOCs, the problem isn’t getting better. It’s getting worse. As environments expand across cloud, SaaS, identity, and legacy systems, analysts are flooded with signals that all demand attention but rarely arrive with...

The Phone is Listening: A Cold War–Style Vulnerability in Modern VoIP

I don’t know about you, but when I think about “critical vulnerabilities,” I usually picture ransomware, data theft, or maybe a server falling over at 2 a.m. while someone frantically searches Slack for the last good backup. What I don’t picture is a scene straight out of a Cold War spy film...

Measuring AI Security: Separating Signal from Panic

The conversation around AI security is full of anxiety. Every week, new headlines warn of jailbreaks, prompt injection, agents gone rogue, and the rise of LLM-enabled cybercrime. It’s easy to come away with the impression that AI is fundamentally uncontrollable and dangerous, and therefore...

Chrysalis, Notepad++, and Supply Chain Risk: What it Means, and What to Do Next

When Rapid7 published its analysis of the Chrysalis backdoor linked to a compromise of Notepad++ update infrastructure, it raised understandable questions from customers and security teams. The investigation showed that attackers did not exploit a flaw in the application itself. Instead, they...

Critical Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) zero-day exploited in the wild (CVE-2026-1281 & CVE-2026-1340)

Overview On January 29, 2026, Ivanti disclosed two new critical vulnerabilities affecting Endpoint Manager Mobile EPMM: CVE-2026-1281 and CVE-2026-1340. The vendor has indicated that exploitation in the wild has already occurred prior to disclosure. This has been echoed by CISA who added...

Metasploit Wrap-Up 01/23/2026

Oracle E-Business Suite Unauth RCE This week, we are pleased to announce the addition of a module that exploits CVE-2025-61882, a pre-authentication remote code execution vulnerability in Oracle E-Business Suite versions 12.2.3 through 12.2.14. The exploit chains multiple flaws—including SSRF, pa...

Metasploit Wrap-Up 11/07/2025

New module content 3 Centreon authenticated command injection leading to RCE via broker engine "reload" parameter Author: h00die-gr3y [email protected] Type: Exploit Pull request: 20672 contributed by h00die-gr3y Path: linux/http/centreonauthrcecve20255946 AttackerKB reference: CVE-2025-5946...

Key Emerging Cybersecurity Threats and Challenges for 2025 and Beyond

The global threat landscape is undergoing an unprecedented transformation. Organizations are facing dizzying levels of complexity, driven by rapid technological innovation, the widespread adoption of artificial intelligence, and the expected disruptive effects of quantum computing. At the same...

Rapid7 at Pwn2Own: Raising the Bar in Vuln Intel

As the 2025 edition of Pwn2Own Ireland draws to a close, we are taking a beat to reflect on Rapid7’s participation and achievements, both this year and last, in the world of competitive zero day exploit development. Pwn2Own is a zero day exploit competition run by the Zero Day Initiative ZDI and...

CVE-2025-61882: Critical 0day in Oracle E-Business Suite exploited in-the-wild

Overview On Saturday, October 4, 2025, Oracle published an advisory and accompanying patch for CVE-2025-61882. This new vulnerability affects the Oracle Concurrent Processing product within Oracle E-Business Suite EBS, and has a CVSS score of 9.8 Critical. Per the vendor advisory, the vulnerabili...

CVE-2025-10035 - Critical unauthenticated RCE in GoAnywhere MFT

Overview On September 18, 2025, Fortra published an advisory for CVE-2025-10035. This new vulnerability affects GoAnywhere MFT, an enterprise managed file transfer solution, and allows an attacker to achieve unauthenticated remote code execution. GoAnywhere MFT is a file transfer solution that ha...

Rapid7 Q2 2025 Incident Response Findings

Rapid7’s Q2 incident response IR data illustrates a solidification of trends first observed in Q1. There are no sweeping changes to commonly observed malware, or noticeably different software being deployed by threat actors in Q2. If you were expecting Bunny Loader to lose its impressive...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 09/05/2025

Persistence Improvements and Exploits This week, the Metasploit team and the community has made improvements to some persistence modules such as Bash, which improves how they function behind the scenes. They have also been tagged with MITRE ATT&CK techniques. A new exploit has also been added thi...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 07/18/2025

ARM64 Windows Payload This latest metasploit-framework release marks a significant milestone, introducing the inaugural payload specifically designed for Windows ARM64 architecture: windows/aarch64/exec. This addition greatly expands the framework's capabilities, enabling penetration testers and...

Multiple Brother Devices: Multiple Vulnerabilities (FIXED)

Overview Update June 25, 2025: Update statistics to reflect an additional 6 affected models from Konica Minolta, Inc. Rapid7 conducted a zero-day research project into multifunction printers MFP from Brother Industries, Ltd. This research resulted in the discovery of 8 new vulnerabilities. Some o...

India's Cyber Leaders Prepare for AI-Driven Threats

As India's economy rapidly digitizes, cybersecurity challenges are becoming increasingly complex. This May, Rapid7 launched our inaugural Global Security Day series across India, bringing together top security leaders in Mumbai, Delhi, and Bengaluru to address the most pressing cyber threats faci...

From Ideology to Financial Gain: Exploring the Convergence from Hacktivism to Cybercrime

Co-authored by Yaniv Allender and Alexandra Blia Introduction In the ever-evolving landscape of cyber threat actors, the lines between ideologically driven hacktivism and financially motivated cybercriminals have become increasingly blurred. Originally fueled by political, social, or ethical...