Reinforcing resilience with financial assurance: Breach protection matters now more than ever

Introducing Rapid7’s value-added Breach Protection Warranty that delivers confidence, clarity, and coverage when it matters most. Life’s old adage often applies in security: Hope for the best, prepare for the worst. In today’s threat landscape, even the best-prepared organizations can’t guarantee...

A New Approach to Managing Vulnerabilities is Required - Work Smarter not Harder with Rapid7 Remediation Hub

The volume of common vulnerabilities and exposures CVEs identified has now reached a level that even the organization tasked with managing them can no longer keep up. The National Vulnerability Database NVD announced in February 2024 that it would no longer provide common vulnerability scoring...

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...

Unpacking a post-compromise breach simulation with Vector Command

The reality of modern cyber threats In today’s evolving cyber landscape, breaches are not a matter of if , but when. Attackers continue to refine their techniques, using stealthy post-compromise tactics to maintain persistence, escalate privileges, and move laterally across networks. The key to...

Fresh Faces Join the Take Command 2025 Lineup

Take Command 2025 is bringing together some of the sharpest minds in cybersecurity to tackle today’s most urgent challenges. From attacker methodologies and AI-driven security to MDR, red teaming, and exposure management, this year’s virtual event will provide security professionals with practica...

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...

Helping us help you: Practical applications of AI in the SOC

Security teams can be understandably hesitant to integrate artificial intelligence AI into incident response workflows. A single mistaken action could lead to widespread disruption, monetary loss, or reputational harm. Meanwhile, attackers are increasingly leveraging AI to enhance the scale and...

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...

Command Platform Innovations Eliminate Data Blind Spots Through Complete Visibility and Context-Driven Risk Prioritization

Rapid7 provides unmatched attack surface visibility through the Command Platform, helping security teams identify, prioritize, and remediate risk across hybrid environments. Surface Command is the only solution available that combines native external and internal scanning into a single unified vi...

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...

Why Cybercriminals Are Not Necessarily Embracing AI

As published in HackerNoon and featured as a “Top 20 Best Read Article” for AI. Introduction The rapid advancement of AI has offered powerful tools for malware detection, but it has also introduced new avenues for adversarial attacks. As an example, recently OpenAI reported threat actors abusing...

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...

7 Rapid Questions on our Belfast Placement Programme: Orla Magee and Paddy McDermott

Ever wonder what it’s like to be an intern at Rapid7 in Belfast? Software Engineers Orla Magee and Paddy McDermott share what the interview process looked like for them, along with impactful projects and advice for others exploring Rapid7’s Placement Programme. What was the interview process like...

Proactive Visibility Is Foundational to Strong Cybersecurity

Authored by Guest IDC Blogger: Michelle Abraham Exposures are more than CVEs, so organizations need to move beyond the traditional thinking of vulnerability management to a holistic view. Part of that view must be greater visibility into devices, users, applications, and all the digital...

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...

CVE-2024-45195: Apache OFBiz Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution (Fixed)

Apache OFBiz below 18.12.16 is vulnerable to unauthenticated remote code execution on Linux and Windows. An attacker with no valid credentials can exploit missing view authorization checks in the web application to execute arbitrary code on the server. Exploitation is facilitated by bypassing...

Preparing for Unknown Risks: How to Better Prepare for Risks You Can't See Yet

As security professionals we’re used to dealing with unknowns and unpredictability. We understand that it's impossible to always know what's around the corner. It's not just about external threats and the big breaches splashed across the news headlines. On one hand, we’re combating threat actors...

Brandon Adkins’ Career Journey - Taking Chances and Tackling New Challenges

Brandon Adkins is the Manager of our Threat Intelligence & Detection Engineering TIDE team. His career journey spans a variety of roles and teams where he has been able to showcase his technical skills in security. Since joining Rapid7, he’s had experience as a Penetration Testing Consultant,...

Patch Tuesday - August 2024

Microsoft is addressing 88 vulnerabilities this August 2024 Patch Tuesday. Microsoft has evidence of in-the-wild exploitation and/or public disclosure for ten of the vulnerabilities published today, which is significantly more than usual. At time of writing, all six of the known-exploited...

Key Takeaways From The Take Command Summit: Unlocking Security Success

As cybersecurity threats continue to evolve, so must our defenses. The recent Rapid7 Take Command Summit provided invaluable insights into preparing for, responding to, and recovering from ransomware attacks. Here are three essential takeaways from the session, "Before, During, & After Ransomware...

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...

Rapid7’s Ransomware Radar Report Shows Threat Actors are Evolving …Fast.

Few issues keep cybersecurity professionals up at night more than the threat of ransomware. The ubiquity of targets, the relative organization of threat actors, and their multiple paths of entry make combating ransomware particularly formidable. But there is one more facet to this threat that mak...

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...

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...

Building our Team in Prague: Meet Martin Votruba

From developing driver-assistance software for a luxury car brand to jumping on board an NFT startup, Martin Votruba, Lead Software Engineer, is not one to shy away from a challenge. In September of 2023, joined Rapid7 as the first hire in its new Prague office. Martin is leveraging Rapid7’s...

The Cybersecurity Skills Gap Is Widening: New Study

The era of COVID-19 has taught us all a few things about supply and demand. From the early days of toilet paper shortages to more recent used-car pricing shocks, the stress tests brought on by a global pandemic have revealed the extremely delicate balance of scarcity and surplus. Another area...

[Podcast] How Entrepreneur Christian Wentz Takes On Identity Authentication and Data Integrity One Line of Code at a Time

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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...

CVE-2026-63520: Microsoft SharePoint Remote Code Execution (FIXED)

Overview Rapid7 Labs conducted a zero-day research project against Microsoft SharePoint, resulting in the discovery of two new vulnerabilities that, when chained together, achieve unauthenticated remote code execution RCE against a vulnerable SharePoint server. Today, both Rapid7 and Microsoft ar...

Rapid7 Analysis: Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution in JetBrains TeamCity (CVE-2026-63077)

Overview On July 27, 2026, JetBrains published a security advisory for CVE-2026-63077, a critical unsafe deserialization vulnerability affecting JetBrains TeamCity. An attacker who can reach a TeamCity server over HTTP or HTTPS can exploit the agent polling protocol without credentials and execut...

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 04/03/2026

Additional Adapters and More Modules This week, we added a whole new bunch of HTTP/HTTPS-based CMD payloads for X64 and X86 versions of Windows. The additional breadth of selectable payloads and delivery techniques allows users new options to tailor the attack workflow for their environment. This...

Building the Future of Cloud Security: Rapid7 Recognized in Cloud Native Application Protection, Q1 2026

We are excited to share Rapid7’s recognition in The Forrester Wave™: Cloud Native Application Protection Solutions CNAPP , Q1 2026 1. We see this acknowledgment as a milestone that highlights our strategic evolution and continued drive to help security teams shift from reactive defense to...

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...

From Extortion to E-commerce: How Ransomware Groups Turn Breaches into Bidding Wars

Ransomware has evolved from simple digital extortion into a structured, profit-driven criminal enterprise. Over time, it has led to the development of a complex ecosystem where stolen data is not only leveraged for ransom, but also sold to the highest bidder. This trend first gained traction in...

Defend Smarter, Not Harder: The Power of Curated Vulnerability Intelligence

Let’s be honest, we as an industry spend far too long responding to issues that simply don’t matter. Chasing down false positives, reviewing threat intelligence reports that bear no relation to our sector, and more recently reviewing vulnerability advisories of systems not deployed within the...

Metasploit Wrap-Up 10/24/2025

Let us suggest persistence… This week's edition brings the new persistence suggester from h00die. Similar to the exploit variant, this module will list the available persistence mechanisms for your selected target. The module requires a session to target the machine, so it can run check methods...

The Business of Cybercrime: Raj Samani on Access, Ransomware, and What Comes Next

Cybercrime is no longer chaotic, it’s commercial. That’s the central theme of Episode 3 in our Experts on Experts: Commanding Perspectives series, where Craig Adams sits down with Raj Samani, Chief Scientist at Rapid7, for a wide-ranging, no-nonsense conversation on today’s threat economy. They...

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...

From .pth to p0wned: Abuse of Pickle Files in AI Model Supply Chains

Executive summary Recent threat research highlights a growing risk in the Python and machine learning ML ecosystem: the exploitation of serialized model files, specifically those using Python’s pickle module. While commonly used for saving and loading ML models, pickle files can execute arbitrary...

Patch Tuesday - June 2025

Microsoft is addressing 67 vulnerabilities this June 2025 Patch Tuesday. Microsoft has evidence of in-the-wild exploitation for just one of the vulnerabilities published today, and that is reflected in CISA KEV. Separately, Microsoft is aware of existing public disclosure for one other freshly...

Cultivating Growth and Development at Rapid7

At Rapid7, we’re pushing the boundaries on what a cybersecurity company can be as we work to build a more secure digital future. In a field where the threat landscape continues to evolve, continuous learning and the development of our people becomes an engine for company success and innovation...

Key Takeaways from the Take Command Summit 2025: Risk Revolution – Proactive Strategies for Exposure Management

At the Take Command 2025 Virtual Cybersecurity Summit, a standout session titled Risk Revolution brought together Rapid7 product leaders and ESG analyst Tyler Shields to unpack the evolution of exposure management — and how organizations can build more context-driven, proactive risk strategies...

Threats don’t wait, neither should you: Mastering Emergent Threat Response Validation

Cybersecurity is a team sport In cybersecurity, no one fights alone. Defending against modern threats requires seamless collaboration, real-time intelligence, and precision execution—just like a well-coordinated sports team. That’s why Rapid7 Labs and our Vector Command team work together to stay...

Multiple vulnerabilities in SonicWall SMA 100 series (FIXED)

Overview In April of 2025, Rapid7 discovered and disclosed three new vulnerabilities affecting SonicWall Secure Mobile Access “SMA” 100 series appliances SMA 200, 210, 400, 410, 500v. These vulnerabilities are tracked as CVE-2025-32819, CVE-2025-32820, and CVE-2025-32821. An attacker with access ...

Patch Tuesday - April 2025

Microsoft is addressing 121 vulnerabilities this April 2025 Patch Tuesday, which is more than twice as many as last month. Microsoft has evidence of in-the-wild exploitation for just one of the vulnerabilities published today, which is already reflected in CISA KEV. Once again, Microsoft has...

Don’t Miss Out: What You Need to Know Before Take Command 2025

Take Command 2025 is just two days away, and there’s still time to secure your spot. Whether you’ve already registered or are building your agenda now, there’s plenty to look forward to — and it all starts this Wednesday, April 9. In the lead-up to the live summit, two new on-demand sessions are...

Ivanti Connect Secure CVE-2025-22457 exploited in the wild

On Thursday, April 3, 2025, Ivanti disclosed a critical severity vulnerability affecting Ivanti Connect Secure, Pulse Connect Secure, Policy Secure, and ZTA Gateways. CVE-2025-22457 is a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability that allows remote, unauthenticated attackers to execute code on the...