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Under The Hoodie: The Pen Test Diaries
Breaking In So You Don’t Have To Each year, Rapid7 penetration testers conduct over 1,000 security assessments, pushing boundaries to expose vulnerabilities before the bad guys do. The mission? Get in, escalate privileges, and own the environment—physically, digitally, or sometimes just by...
Patch Tuesday - February 2025
Microsoft is addressing 56 vulnerabilities this February 2025 Patch Tuesday. Microsoft has evidence of in-the-wild exploitation for two of the vulnerabilities published today, which is reflected in CISA KEV. Microsoft is aware of public disclosure for two other vulnerabilities. This is now the...
The 2024 Ransomware Landscape: Looking back on another painful year
The ransomware landscape in 2024 continued to evolve at a rapid pace, outgrowing many of the trends we saw in 2023. Threat actors remained relentless and innovative, targeting organizations of all sizes and sectors. In this post, we’ll examine the latest data points, discuss notable groups, and...
Securing Success: Stories from the SOC Webinar Series
In today’s fast-paced threat landscape, SOC Security Operations Center teams are under relentless pressure. Cyberattacks are evolving, threat volumes are skyrocketing, and attackers are exploiting vulnerabilities faster than ever. To navigate these challenges, Rapid7 has launched the "Securing...
New Research: Enhancing Botnet Detection with AI using LLMs and Similarity Search
As botnets continue to evolve, so do the techniques required to detect them. While Transport Layer Security TLS encryption is widely adopted for secure communications, botnets leverage TLS to obscure command-and-control C2 traffic. These malicious actors often have identifiable characteristics...
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...
Black Hat USA 2024: Key Takeaways and Industry Trends
What a week! As Hacker Summer camp shifts into the rearview, it’s time to take a moment to reflect on the week, what we learned and the people we had the pleasure of meeting while out in Las Vegas. As is always the case at Black Hat 2024, the cybersecurity community was buzzing with the latest...
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 Infuses Generative AI into the InsightPlatform to Supercharge SecOps and Augment MDR Services
In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, staying ahead of threats is not just a goal—it's a necessity. At Rapid7, we are pioneering the infusion of artificial intelligence AI into our platform and service offerings, transforming the way security operations centers SOCs around the globe...
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...
Method to an Old Consultant's Madness with Site Design
If it's your first time purchasing and setting up InsightVM – or if you are a seasoned veteran – I highly recommend a ‘less is more’ strategy with site design. After many thousands of health checks performed by security consultants for InsightVM customers, the biggest challenge most consultants...
PenTales: A Badge, a Tag, and a Bunch of Unattended Chemicals; Why Physical Social Engineering Engagements are an Important Part of Security
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 going to share some of our favorite tales from the pen test desk and hopefully...
The Japanese Automotive Industry Attack Landscape
Recently, we released a major report analyzing the threat landscape of Japan, the globe’s third largest economy. In that report we looked at the ways in which threat actors infiltrate Japanese companies spoiler alert: it is often through foreign subsidiaries and affiliates and some of the most...
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...
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...
Complimentary GartnerⓇ Report "How to Respond to the 2022 Cyberthreat Landscape": Ransomware Edition
First things first — if you're a member of a cybersecurity team bouncing from one stressful identify vulnerability, patch, repeat cycle to another, claim your copy of the GartnerⓇ report “How to Respond to the 2022 Cyberthreat Landscape" right now. It will help you understand the current landscap...
4 Fallacies That Keep SMBs Vulnerable to Ransomware, Pt. 1
This post is co-authored by Chris Henderson, Senior Director of Information Security at Datto, Inc. Ransomware has focused on big-game hunting of large enterprises in the past years, and those events often make the headlines. The risk can be even more serious for small and medium-sized businesses...
Graph Analysis of the Conti Ransomware Group Internal Chats
We were presented with a remarkably rich source of intelligence with the leaked communications from the Conti ransomware group. It’s a compelling and insightful read. The leaked information contains details on messages, including information on timestamps, sender, receiver, and the actual body of...
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...
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...
New Whitepaper: Exploiting Cellular-based IoT Devices
Rapid7 has released a whitepaper titled “The Weaponization of Cellular Based IoT Technology,” by Deral Heiland, principal security researcher, IoT, at Rapid7, and Carlota Bindner, lead product security researcher at Thermo Fisher Scientific. The paper examines how attackers with physical access c...
Negotiating with the Board: Translating Active Risk into Financial Exposure
Security leaders rarely struggle to produce data. The challenge is turning that data into something the board can use to make decisions. Walk into a board meeting with a slide showing 1,200 critical vulnerabilities and 44 internet-facing assets, and you will likely see polite acknowledgment rathe...
CVE-2026-31381, CVE-2026-31382: Gainsight Assist Information Disclosure and Cross-Site Scripting (FIXED)
Overview Rapid7 Labs recently identified a chain of security vulnerabilities in the Gainsight Assist plugin and its interactions with the associated domain app.gainsight.com. These vulnerabilities include an Information Disclosure flaw CVE-2026-31381 and a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting XSS...
ICYMI: Experts on Experts – Season One Roundup
In 2025, we launched Experts on Experts: Commanding Perspectives as a pilot video series designed to spotlight the ideas shaping cybersecurity, directly from the people driving them. Over five episodes, Rapid7 leaders shared short, candid conversations on topics like agentic AI, MDR ROI,...
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...
CVE-2025-37164: Critical unauthenticated RCE affecting Hewlett Packard Enterprise OneView
Overview On December 17, 2025, Hewlett Packard Enterprise HPE published an advisory for CVE-2025-37164, a CVSS 10.0 vulnerability in HPE OneView. The vulnerability, which was reported to HPE by security researcher Nguyen Quoc Khanh, facilitates unauthenticated remote code execution RCE on version...
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...
CVE-2025-10573: Ivanti EPM Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (Fixed)
Ivanti Endpoint Manager “EPM” versions 2024 SU4 and below are vulnerable to stored cross-site scripting “XSS”. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-10573 and assigned a CVSS score of 9.6, was patched on December 9, 2025 with the release of Ivanti EPM version EPM 2024 SU4 SR1. An attacker with...
What Recent Cyber Attacks Reveal About Readiness in 2025
When we last wrote about the rising tide of cyberattacks hitting the retail sector, the headlines were already sobering: disruption at major brands, ransomware claims, and attackers showing a deep understanding of how to break into systems and exploit trust. But that was just the beginning. Since...
An Earth-Shattering Kaboom: Bringing a Physical ICS Penetration Testing Environment to Life (Part 2)
Program Vulnerabilities and Manual Assessment This is the second in a three-part series on building and using a testing bench for Industrial Control Systems ICS. In this series, we will build a physical test bench, review program logic to find flaws, perform manual exploitation of commonly used I...
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 08/15/2025
Don’t forget to take the Metasploit User Engagement Survey! We had an awesome time at DEF CON and Black Hat with our very own zeroSteiner and jheysel-r7 presenting on five different occasions! We announced our user engagement survey there, and would love for all of you to participate until the en...
Q2 2025 Ransomware Trends Analysis: Boom and Bust
“Tumultous times” would be an accurate summary of Q2 2025 where ransomware threat actors are concerned. Rapid7’s internal and publicly-available data analysis reveals a dynamic environment where major players come and go, newer groups work their way up the heavy-hitters ladder, and threat actors...
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 06/17/2025
New Modules & Adapters, and Improvements! This week’s release brings new modules, additional adapter payloads and improvements to existing modules and features. These modules target software such as ThinManager, Remote for Mac, Roundcube and more. It also includes additional work from bcoles that...
CVE-2025-4365/CVE-2024-12284: NetScaler Console/SDX Authenticated Arbitrary File Read/Write (FIXED)
During root cause analysis for the NetScaler Console vulnerability, CVE-2024-6235, Rapid7 discovered two high severity authenticated arbitrary file read and write vulnerabilities which were disclosed to the vendor in accordance with our disclosure policy. An Arbitrary File Read vulnerability...
Introducing AI Attack Coverage in Exposure Command: Secure what traditional AppSec Tools miss
The rise of GenAI-powered applications – from internal copilots to customer-facing chatbots – is changing how businesses operate. While these tools drive innovation, they also introduce a fast moving, often invisible layer of risk. Most traditional AppSec tools were never built to handle the uniq...
Key Takeaways from the Take Command Summit 2025: Customer Panel on Future-Proofing VM Programs
One of the most actionable sessions at the Take Command 2025 Virtual Cybersecurity Summit came directly from the field. In a panel hosted by Aniket Menon, VP of Product Management at Rapid7, security leaders from Cross Financial Corp, Phibro Animal Health Corporation, and Miltenyi Biotec shared h...
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...
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...
Password Spray Attacks Taking Advantage of Lax MFA
In the first quarter of 2025, Rapid7’s Managed Threat Hunting team observed a significant volume of brute-force password attempts leveraging FastHTTP, a high-performance HTTP server and client library for Go, to automate unauthorized logins via HTTP requests. This rapid volume of credential...
Rapid7 Earns 5-Star Rating in the 2025 CRN® Partner Program Guide
Rapid7 has been honored by CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, with a 5-Star Award in the 2025 CRN Partner Program Guide. This annual guide is an essential resource for solution providers seeking vendor partner programs that match their business goals and deliver high partner value. Recognition...
Multiple vulnerabilities in Ingress NGINX Controller for Kubernetes
On March 24, 2025, Kubernetes disclosed 5 new vulnerabilities affecting the Ingress NGINX Controller for Kubernetes. Successful exploitation could allow attackers access to all secrets stored across all namespaces in the Kubernetes cluster, which could result in cluster takeover. CVE-2025-1974 9....