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...

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...

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...

The Vulnerability Vortex: Escaping the Whirlpool of Ineffective Security

Drowning in data: The modern security dilemma In today's interconnected digital landscape, organizations find themselves caught in a relentless torrent of security alerts and vulnerability notifications. As cyber threats evolve at breakneck speed, security teams struggle to keep their heads above...

Black Basta Ransomware Campaign Drops Zbot, DarkGate, and Custom Malware

Executive Summary Beginning in early October, Rapid7 has observed a resurgence of activity related to the ongoing social engineering campaign being conducted by Black Basta ransomware operators. Rapid7 initially reported the discovery of the novel social engineering campaign back in May, 2024,...

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...

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...

Selling Ransomware Breaches: 4 Trends Spotted on the RAMP Forum

The sale and purchase of unauthorized access to compromised enterprise networks has become a linchpin for cybercriminal operations, particularly in facilitating ransomware attacks. Underground forums are sharing guidelines on breaching networks and selling the access they obtain, leaving the...

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: Command Your Cloud

The Cloud security landscape is constantly changing. During the "Command Your Cloud" session at the Rapid7 Take Command Summit, industry experts Ryan Blanchard, Jeffrey Gardner and Devin Krugly shared vital strategies for staying ahead of that constant change. Effective cloud security requires a...

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...

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...

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...

CVE-2023-5950 Rapid7 Velociraptor Reflected XSS

This advisory covers a specific issue identified in Velociraptor and disclosed by a security code review. We want to thank Mathias Kujala for working with the Velociraptor team to identify and rectify this issue. It has been fixed as of Version 0.7.0-4, released November 6, 2023. CVSS · HIGH ·...

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...

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...

Ditch The Duct Tape: Reduce Security Sprawl With XDR

The New Year’s Day edition of The Wall Street Journal asked a big question in a big headline: “Can Southwest Airlines Buy Back Its Customers’ Love?” While other airlines rebounded from extreme winter weather and service disruptions, Southwest—always top-rated, with a famously loyal following—melt...

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...

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...

[The Lost Bots] S02E04: Cyber's Most Dangerous Game — Threat Hunting

!\The Lost Bots\ S02E04: Cyber's Most Dangerous Game — Threat Huntinghttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2022/09/The-Lost-Bots-logo-large.png Welcome back to The Lost Bots! In this episode, we dive into one of our favorite topics: threat hunting. It's a subject we've talked about before, but...

InsightVM Release Update: Let’s Focus on Remediation for Just a Minute

Think of an endeavor in your life where your success is entirely dependent on the success of others. What’s the first example that comes to mind? It’s common in team sports – a quarterback and a wide receiver, a fullback and their goalie, an equestrian and their horse. What if you narrow the scop...

The Rapid7 Sales Culture and Experience: An Inside Look From 2 VPs

Sales roles are all about people. That holds true not only when you're building relationships with prospects but also in your day-to-day experience on the team. Having the right culture and people around you can make or break your success, satisfaction, and long-term growth. If you're a job seeke...

[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...

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-2026-94127: Critical Unauthenticated RCE in F5 BIG-IP APM

Overview On September 22, 2026, F5 published a security advisory for CVE-2026-94127, a critical heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability affecting F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager APM. The vulnerability has a CVSS v3.1 score of 9.8. An unauthenticated attacker with network access to an affected...

CVE-2026-76461: Critical Cisco Secure Email Gateway Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild

Overview On September 14, 2026, Cisco published a security advisory for CVE-2026-76461, a critical SQL injection vulnerability affecting Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Secure Email Gateway. The vulnerability has a reported CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.8 and could allow an unauthenticated, remote...

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...

New Whitepaper: Stealthy BPFDoor Variants are a Needle That Looks Like Hay

Executive Overview Advanced persistent threats APTs are constantly and consistently changing tactics as network defenders plug holes in defenses. Static indicators of compromise IoCs for the BPFDoor have been widely deployed, forcing threat actors to get creative in their use of this particular...

Metasploit Wrap-Up 03/27/2026

Better NTLM Relaying Functionality This week’s release brings an improvement to the SMB NTLM relay server. In the past, it’s support has been expanded with modules for relaying to HTTP ESC8, MSSQL and LDAP while still receiving connections over the humble SMB service. Prior to this release, clien...

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...

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...

New Research: Multifunction Printer (MFP) Security Concerns within the Enterprise Business Environment

Multifunction printers MFPs do far more than print. They scan, email, fax, store, and authenticate. That convenience comes with risk. Our latest report, Understanding Multifunction Printer MFP Security within the Enterprise Business Environment, from Rapid7’s Deral Heiland, Principal Security...

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...

Metasploit Wrap-Up 09/12/25

New LightHouse Studio RCE module This week we've added a new module that exploits an unauthenticated template injection vulnerability CVE-2025-34300 in Sawtooth Software’s Lighthouse Studio, allowing arbitrary Perl execution via survey templates in versions prior to 9.16.14. This module has the...

Rapid7 named a representative vendor in 2025 Gartner® Market Guide for Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP)

Being a cloud security professional can feel like you’re caught in the middle of a tug-of-war. On one side, developers, driven by the need for speed and innovation, see security as a potential bottleneck; on the other, business leaders, who are often removed from the technical weeds, have little...

Metasploit Wrap-Up 08/01/2025

ESC support in Metasploit This week, we're excited to announce that Metasploit users can now detect certificate templates vulnerable to ESC9, ESC10, and ESC16 using the existing ldapescvulnerabletemplate module. In addition, users can now exploit these vulnerable templates with the brand new...

Critical Veeam Backup & Replication CVE-2025-23121

On Tuesday, June 17, 2025, backup and recovery software provider Veeam published a security advisory for a critical remote code execution RCE vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-23121. The vulnerability affects Backup & Replication systems that are domain joined. Veeam explicitly mentions that...

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...

CVE-2025-32756 Exploited in the Wild, Affecting Multiple Fortinet Products

On May 13, 2025, Fortinet disclosed CVE-2025-32756, an unauthenticated stack-based buffer overflow affecting multiple Fortinet products; including FortiVoice, FortiRecorder, FortiNDR, FortiMail, and FortiCamera. The vulnerability is rated as CVSS 9.6 Critical, and allows an unauthenticated remote...

Exploring an Untethered, Unified Approach to CTEM

We live in a world where traditional Vulnerability Management VM has become infosec’s version of ‘whack-a-mole’— an attempt to tackle risks that constantly shift, multiply, and morph. As organizations push workloads to the cloud, offer customers digital experiences, or as they build AI-enabled...

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...

Active exploitation of SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer CVE-2025-31324

On Thursday, April 24, enterprise resource planning company SAP published a CVE and a day later, an advisory behind login for CVE-2025-31324, a zero-day vulnerability in NetWeaver Visual Composer that carries a CVSSv3 score of 10. The vulnerability arises from a missing authorization check in...

Following the News: MITRE’s Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) Funding

The current situation On April 16, CISA extended funding to ensure no continuity issues with the critical Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE program. This was in response to a letter sent by MITRE on April 15 to CVE board members warning of a potential issue with MITRE's support for the CVE...

Preview the Action: Two New Sessions Available Before Take Command 2025

Take Command 2025 is packed with insights from cybersecurity experts, threat intelligence leaders, and hands-on practitioners. But you don’t have to wait until April 9 to start learning. Two exclusive sessions are now available on-demand — giving you early access to critical content designed to...

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...