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...

Multiple Critical SolarWinds Web Help Desk Vulnerabilities: CVE-2025-40551, CVE-2025-40552, CVE-2025-40553, CVE-2025-40554

Overview On January 28, 2026, SolarWinds published an advisory for multiple new vulnerabilities affecting their Web Help Desk product. Web Help Desk is an IT help desk ticketing and asset management software solution. Of the six new CVEs disclosed in the advisory, four are critical, and allow a...

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...

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...

CVE-2025-7775: Critical NetScaler vulnerability exploited in-the-wild

Overview On August 26, 2025, Citrix published a security bulletin for three new vulnerabilities affecting NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway. Of the three vulnerabilities disclosed, the vendor has indicated that CVE-2025-7775 has been exploited in-the-wild by an as-yet unknown threat actor. As...

CVE-2025-54309: CrushFTP Zero-Day Exploited in the Wild

On Friday, July 18, 2025, managed file transfer vendor CrushFTP released information to a private mailing list on a new critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-54309, affecting versions below 10.8.5 and 11.3.423 across all platforms. According to the public-facing vendor advisory, this...

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...

Key Takeaways from the Take Command Summit 2025: Inside the Mind of an Attacker

In one of the most anticipated sessions of Take Command 2025, Raj Samani, Chief Scientist at Rapid7, sat down with Trent Teyema, former FBI Special Agent and President of CSG Strategies, for a candid conversation on how threat actors are evolving and what defenders must do to keep up. Moderated b...

AI and Resilience Take the Spotlight in 2025: Key Trends from Gartner® Cybersecurity Research

Cybersecurity has never stood still — but in 2025, it’s not just evolving. It’s transforming. Cybersecurity has entered a pivotal new phase. According to Gartner®, Top Trends in Cybersecurity for 2025 , “Security and risk management SRM leaders must enable business value and double down on...

Overcoming the Challenges of Vulnerability Remediation

The following is a guest blog post by Zac Youtz, Co-Founder and CTO at valued Rapid7 partner, Furl. Here, Zac discusses how to effectively remediate vulnerabilities discovered by Rapid7’s InsightVM. Scaling vulnerability remediation with AI Vulnerability remediation is a crucial-yet-complex task...

Fake BianLian Ransomware Letters in Circulation

At a glance: The FBI is warning of a mail-based fraud involving letters sent to businesses in the U.S. These letters resemble online ransomware notes demanding payment via Bitcoin. Rapid7 examined a mail-based ransom demand sent to a customer from a local postcode. There is no evidence that any o...

Unlocking MSSP Success: Why CTEM is Critical

Co-authored by Thomas Green and Sid Nanda What is Continuous Threat Exposure Management CTEM? Continuous Threat Exposure Management CTEM is a five-stage, continuous security program introduced by Gartner in 2022. It proactively assesses an organization’s exposure across networks, systems, cloud...

Building a High Performance Team in India: Meet Swami Nathan

Swami Nathan has a track record of building new teams from scratch for global companies. Through his experiences, he’s identified what it takes to build not just any team - but a high performing team that drives innovation and growth for business while propelling career trajectories for those who...

Vector Command Opportunistic Phishing Blog

Gone Phishing with Vector Command During one of our customer engagements, our red team will continuously attack your network to see if we can exploit a vulnerability. One of the tactics, techniques and proceduresTTPs we use is “Opportunistic Phishing”. First, let’s share a quick reminder about...

Take Command | Rapid7’s 2025 Cybersecurity Summit: Own Your Attack Surface on April 9

Save the date:April 9, 2025 Take Command is back. After a hugely successful event last year, Rapid7’s cybersecurity summit returns with another stellar lineup to equip security teams with the latest threat intelligence, expert insights, and real-world strategies to take control of an evolving...

Investigating a SharePoint Compromise: IR Tales from the Field

Executive summary Rapid7’s Incident Response team recently investigated a Microsoft Exchange service account with domain administrator privileges. Our investigation uncovered an attacker who accessed a server without authorization and moved laterally across the network, compromising the entire...

Three Recommendations for Creating a Risk-Based Detection and Response Program

It should come as little surprise to most security professionals that keeping pace with the evolution of threat actors has become harder and harder. Maintaining visibility into the threat landscape and on top of external risk vectors is more than a matter of incorporating more point solutions. It...

Assessing Container Images Across Private Registries with InsightCloudSec

In the rapidly evolving landscape of software development and deployment, containerization has emerged as a game-changing technology and a de-facto foundation for the majority of modern applications. Containers allow developers to package applications and their dependencies into a single, portabl...

Details Matter: Pentesting a single device to guarantee security

Rapid7’s penetration testing services regularly assess internal networks of various sizes. For this particular engagement, however, Rapid7 was tasked with performing a penetration test of just one device on an internal network. The device was being piloted for future deployment and the customer h...

Unveiling Key Insights from the 2024 Take Command Summit

The 2024 Take Command Summit, held virtually in partnership with AWS, united over 2,000 security professionals to delve into critical cybersecurity issues. Our infographic captures the essence of the summit, showcasing expert insights from 10 sessions on topics like new attack intelligence, AI...

Takeaways From The Take Command Summit: Unlocking ROI in Security

Rapid7 CMO Cindy Stanton hosted a discussions with Cindy Stanton, Byron Anderson, Principal InfoSec Engineer, KinderCare Learning Companies and Gaël Frouin Director IT Security, AAA Northeast to talk strategies for measuring team performance and demonstrating ROI in cybersecurity at Rapid7’s rece...

Patch Tuesday - July 2024

Microsoft is addressing 139 vulnerabilities this July 2024 Patch Tuesday, which is on the high side in terms of typical CVE counts. They’ve also republished details for 4 CVEs issued by other vendors that affect Microsoft products. Microsoft has evidence of in-the-wild exploitation for 2 of the...

Rapid7 Recognized in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for SIEM

Command Your Attack Surface with a next-gen SIEM built for the Cloud First Era Rapid7 is excited to share that we are named a Challenger for InsightIDR in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for SIEM. In a crowded and constantly changing space, this is our sixth time to be recognized in the report...

Take Command Summit: A Message from Rapid7 Chairman and CEO, Corey Thomas

The Rapid7 Take Command Summit is just two short weeks away. We’re busy putting together one of the most impactful programs on the latest in cybersecurity trends, technology, and innovations available, and we are eager to share it with all of you. So eager, in fact, that Chairman and CEO of Rapid...

How CISOs’ Roles – and Security Operations – Will Change in 2024

It’s fair to say that 2023 was a turning point for the cybersecurity industry, and no one felt it more than the CISO. From the onslaught of ransomware and zero-day attacks, to the SEC’s new reporting rules, and added to technological innovation and sprawl, CISOs have never been under more pressur...

Application Security Posture Management

Accelerating the Remediation of Vulnerabilities From Code To Cloud Written by Eric Sheridan, Chief Innovation Officer, Tromzo In this guest blog post by Eric Sheridan, Chief Innovation Officer at valued Rapid7 partner Tromzo, you’ll learn how Rapid7 customers can utilize ASPM solutions to...

Showcasing SecOps Metrics That Matter

This year, new rules from the Security and Exchange Commission SEC about board-level expertise, risk management, and public disclosures will take effect. The European Union is updating its regulations, as well. To meet these new requirements, organizations will need to explain to shareholders...

[The Lost Bots] S03E03. The Rise of The Machines

!\The Lost Bots\ S03E03. The Rise of The Machineshttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2023/05/CWfxAaUmZV248bvr4yKaK2.jpg Artificial Intelligence AI is both a profound topic and now, a practical one too: cybersecurity marketers in particular are loving the letters “A” an “I.” But exactly where a...

Cloud Security Strategies for Manufacturing

Protecting production while supporting growing cloud initiatives The manufacturing industry is in limbo as organizations shift to cloud services. Many organizations are transitioning services to the cloud, but the vast majority maintain hybrid network environments that lean heavily on on-prem...

Raptor Technologies Volunteer Management Client-Side Security Controls (FIXED)

Prior to Mar 18, 2023, due to a reliance on client-side controls, authorized users of Raptor Technologies Volunteer Management SaaS products could effectively enumerate authorized users, and could modify restricted and unrestricted fields in the accounts of other users associated with the same...

Today’s SOC Strategies Will Soon Be Inadequate

New research sponsored by Rapid7 explores the momentum behind security operations center SOC modernization and the role extended detection and response XDR plays. ESG surveyed over 370 IT and cybersecurity professionals in the US and Canada – responsible for evaluating, purchasing, and utilizing...

A Quick Look at CES 2022

The first thing I noticed about CES this year was COVID’s impact on the event, which was more than just attendance size. A large amount of the technology focused on sanitation, everything from using light to sanitize surfaces on point-of-sale systems to hand-washing stations. When I attend events...

Time to Act: Bridging the Gap in Cloud Automation Adoption

Ready or not, the cloud is here. Across the board, an overwhelming majority of organizations recognize the value of the cloud. According to a recent survey conducted by Rapid7, 90% of respondents believe that cloud operations are critical to the competitiveness of their business. Analysts agree —...

[The Lost Bots] Episode 4: Deception Technology

!\The Lost Bots\ Episode 4: Deception Technologyhttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2021/08/-The-Lost-Bots--Episode-1--External-Threat-Intelligence-1.jpeg Welcome back to The Lost Bots, a vlog series where Rapid7 Detection and Response Practice Advisor Jeffrey Gardner talks all things security...

Rapid7 and Snyk Are on the Run(time) with Expanded SCA Capabilities

Earlier this year, Rapid7 and Snyk partnered together with the goal of securing cloud-native apps across the software development lifecycle SDLC. As modern development teams continue to adopt new technology that helps them accelerate their efforts, security teams are tasked with making sure they...

Operationalizing CTEM Faster: Build Surface Command Dashboards in Minutes

Modern attack surfaces don’t sit still. Cloud expansion, SaaS sprawl, identity complexity, and shadow IT are continuously reshaping organizational risk. For security leaders, visibility isn’t the challenge anymore, but actually operationalizing that visibility is. Surface Command was built to uni...

Metasploit Wrap-Up 05/08/2026

Spring cleanup This week’s Metasploit updates focused on foundational improvements and expanded target reach. Key enhancements were made to the recently released Copy Fail exploit module, which now benefits from payload fixes in linux/x64/exec and linux/armle/exec. These changes expand its...

Metasploit Wrap-Up 05/01/2026

MCP server This release our very own cdelafuente-r7 finished implementing the Metasploit MCP Server msfmcpd, bringing Model Context Protocol support to Metasploit Framework. MCP lets AI applications like Claude, Cursor, or your own custom agents query Metasploit data. Think of it as a middleware...

Project Glasswing and the Next Challenge for Defenders: Turning Faster Discovery into Faster Action

Anthropic’s Project Glasswing has sparked plenty of discussion about what AI might soon do for vulnerability discovery, but the more useful question for most security teams is how to prepare for, and more importantly seize the opportunity of, what comes next. As we wrote in our earlier blog, What...

Metasploit Wrap-Up 02/06/2026

Google Summer of Code 2026 Our very own Jack Heysel has added some documentation which outlines the Metasploit Framework project ideas for GSoC 2026. For anyone interested in applying please see GSoC-How-To-Apply documentation, or reach out on slack to any of the following GSoC mentors on Slack v...

The Chrysalis Backdoor: A Deep Dive into Lotus Blossom’s toolkit

Rapid7 Labs, together with the Rapid7 MDR team, has uncovered a sophisticated campaign attributed to the Chinese APT group Lotus Blossom. Active since 2009, the group is known for its targeted espionage campaigns primarily impacting organizations across Southeast Asia and more recently Central...

Threat Actors Using AWS WorkMail in Phishing Campaigns

Introduction At Rapid7, we track a wide range of threats targeting cloud environments, where a frequent objective is hijacking victim infrastructure to host phishing or spam campaigns. Beyond the obvious security risks, this approach allows threat actors to offload their operational costs onto th...

Reducing Cloud Chaos: Rapid7 Partners with ARMO to Deliver Cloud Runtime Security

Rapid7 has partnered with ARMO, a leader in cloud infrastructure and application security based on runtime data, to offer Cloud Runtime Security. The new offering, currently in beta, extends our vulnerability and exposure management solution, Exposure Command, into the moment where cloud risk...

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...

Independent Results Confirm Rapid7’s NGAV Delivers Strong, Reliable Protection

At Rapid7, we measure success by how well we protect our customers in the real world. That’s why independent testing like the AV-Comparatives Business Security Test matters. It’s a trusted benchmark for how endpoint security products perform against today’s constantly evolving threats, and how th...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 09/19/2025

Consistently Persistent The Metasploit Framework has around 26 different modules which can be used to establish persistence on a target. Persistence modules help operators ensure they can maintain a consistent foothold within an environment once a target has been compromised and are quite helpful...

Akira Ransomware Group Utilizing SonicWall Devices for Initial Access

Latest update – September 18, 2025 On September 17, 2025, SonicWall disclosed a security breach affecting all SonicWall customers with MySonicWall.com cloud backups enabled. The firm detected suspicious activity targeting MySonicWall.com, through which threat actors were able to access backup...

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...