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...

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...

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...

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...

Fortinet Firewalls Hit with New Zero-Day Attack, Older Data Leak

Executive summary Rapid7 is investigating two separate events affecting Fortinet firewall customers: Zero-day exploitation of CVE-2024-55591, an authentication bypass vulnerability in FortiOS and FortiProxy disclosed earlier this week. Successful exploitation could allow remote attackers to gain...

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...

Multiple Vulnerabilities in Wowza Streaming Engine (Fixed)

Wowza Streaming Engine below v4.9.1 is vulnerable to multiple vulnerabilities on Linux and Windows. An unauthenticated attacker can poison the Wowza Streaming Engine Manager web dashboard with a stored cross-site scripting “XSS” payload. When an administrator views the poisoned dashboard,...

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...

Understanding your Attack Surface: Different Approaches to Asset Discovery

Over the past two blogs Help, I can’t see! A Primer for Attack Surface Management Blog Series and The Main Components of an Attack Surface Management ASM Strategy in our series on Attack Surface Management, we’ve focused on the drivers and core elements of an Attack Surface Management solution. I...

Test Driving a New Benefit Programme in Belfast

When most people think about benefits packages at work, what typically comes to mind are things like healthcare programmes, financial stipends, or wellbeing incentives. For Stephen, one benefit he uses on a daily basis comes on four wheels. Rapid7’s electric vehicle scheme was rolled out in late...

Command with Confidence: Insights from Andrew Bustamante

At the recent Take Command Summit, former CIA intelligence officer and US Air Force combat veteran Andrew Bustamante shared valuable tools, tactics, and techniques from elite intelligence agencies with Rapid7’s Americas Field CTO Jeffrey Gardner in an informal chat. His session, "Command with...

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...

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...

Cloud Webinar Series Part 1: Commanding Cloud Strategies

Over the past decade, cloud computing has evolved into a cornerstone of modern business operations. Its flexibility, scalability, and efficiency have reshaped industries and brought unprecedented opportunities. However, this transformation has come with challenges—most notably those associated wi...

CVE-2023-4528: Java Deserialization Vulnerability in JSCAPE MFT (Fixed)

In August 2023, Rapid7 discovered a Java deserialization vulnerability in Redwood Software’s JSCAPE MFT secure managed file transfer product. The vulnerability was later assigned CVE-2023-4528. It can be exploited by sending an XML-encoded Java object to the Manager Service port, which, by defaul...

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...

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...

3 Strategies That Are More Productive Than Hack Back

2021 has been a banner year in terms of the frequency and diversity of cybersecurity breaking news events, with ransomware being the clear headline-winner. While the DarkSide group now, in theory, retired may have captured the spotlight early in the year due to the Colonial Pipeline attack, REvil...

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 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...

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...

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...

Metasploit Wrap-Up 10/17/2025

New module content 1 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in MotionEye Frontend CVE-2025-60787 Authors: Maksim Rogov and prabhatverma47 Type: Exploit Pull request: 20585 contributed by vognik Path: linux/http/motioneyeauthrcecve202560787 AttackerKB reference: CVE-2025-60787 Description: Adds a...

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...

Securden Unified PAM: Multiple Critical Vulnerabilities (FIXED)

Overview While performing continuous red teaming exercises through Rapid7’s Vector Command service, Rapid7 discovered a total of four vulnerabilities in Securden Unified PAM. Three vulnerabilities were identified that allow an attacker to bypass authentication and view stored passwords or execute...

Coverage Plus Context Equals Intelligent Exposure Management

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVEs is the standardized directory of publicly known software flaws that attackers can exploit to carry out cyber attacks. Vulnerability management solutions scan for CVEs to give you a list of all the gaps in your attack surface, but the volume of new...

CVE-2025-48045, CVE-2025-48046, CVE-2025-48047: MICI NetFax Server Product Vulnerabilities (NOT FIXED)

In the course of a penetration testing engagement, Rapid7 discovered three vulnerabilities in MICI Network Co., Ltd’s NetFax server versions 3.0.1.0. These issues allowed for an authenticated attack chain resulting in Remote Code Execution RCE against the device as the root user. While...

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...

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...

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...

Patch Tuesday - March 2025

Microsoft is addressing 57 vulnerabilities this March 2025 Patch Tuesday, which is a similar volume to last month. However, Microsoft has evidence of in-the-wild exploitation for as many as six of the vulnerabilities published today, and CISA KEV already lists all of them. Microsoft is also aware...

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...

Patch Tuesday - December 2024

Microsoft is addressing 70 vulnerabilities this December 2024 Patch Tuesday. Microsoft has evidence of in-the-wild exploitation and public disclosure for one of the vulnerabilities published today, and this is reflected in a CISA KEV entry. For the third month in a row, Microsoft has published...

Cathal O’Neill - Taking Command of Your Career in Tech

Cathal O’Neill joined Rapid7 in 2023 as a Senior Engineering Manager, and he has since advanced to the role of Engineering Director. Reflecting on his career path, he says,“My journey into senior management has been a continual evolution, driven by both personal development and the desire to lead...

Patch Tuesday - October 2024

Microsoft is addressing 118 vulnerabilities this October 2024 Patch Tuesday. Microsoft has evidence of in-the-wild exploitation and/or public disclosure for five of the vulnerabilities published today, although it does not rate any of these as critical yet. Of those five, Microsoft lists two as...

Patch Tuesday - September 2024

Microsoft is addressing 79 vulnerabilities this September 2024 Patch Tuesday. Microsoft has evidence of in-the-wild exploitation and/or public disclosure for four of the vulnerabilities published today; at time of writing, all four are listed on CISA KEV. Microsoft is also patching four critical...

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,...

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...

Defending Against APTs: A Learning Exercise with Kimsuky

The “evolving threat landscape” is a term we often hear within webinars and presentations taking place across the cybersecurity industry. Such a catch-all term is intended to capture the litany of threat groups and their evolving tactics, but in many ways it fails to truly acknowledge the growth ...

CVE-2024-4978: Backdoored Justice AV Solutions Viewer Software Used in Apparent Supply Chain Attack

The following Rapid7 team members contributed to this blog: Ipek Solak, Thomas Elkins, Evan McCann, Matthew Smith, Jake McMahon, Tyler McGraw, Ryan Emmons, Stephen Fewer, and John Fenninger Overview Justice AV Solutions JAVS is a U.S.-based company specializing in digital audio-visual recording...

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...

Mastering Industrial Cybersecurity: The Significance of Combining Vulnerability Management with Detection and Response

Written by Elad Ben-Meir, CEO SCADAfence, a Honeywell company. In today's digital era, where industries are increasingly reliant on advanced technologies, safeguarding critical infrastructure against cyber threats has become paramount. The convergence of operational technology OT and information...

Rapid7 Introduces AI-driven Cloud Anomaly Detection

It’s that time of year again! AWS Re:Invent, Amazon Web Services’ annual mega-conference will soon kick off in Las Vegas and there are sure to be a ton of new cloud security innovations unveiled throughout the week. From a Rapid7 perspective, we’re launching an exciting new capability - Cloud...

Be Empathetic and Hug Your CISO More!

In the rapidly evolving landscape of cloud computing, the adoption of multi-cloud environments has become a prevailing trend. Organizations increasingly turn to multiple cloud providers to harness diverse features, prevent vendor lock-in, and optimize costs. The multi-cloud approach offers...

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...

Rapid7 Data Engineers Inspire Future Tech Talent at Summer Search Career Fest

We are thrilled to share some exciting news from our data engineering team at Rapid7. Earlier this month, our very own data engineers had the honor of being panelists at the technology panel organized by Summer Search, a fantastic organization that our CEO, Corey Thomas, is on the Leadership...

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...

4 Takeaways from the 2023 Gartner® Market Guide for CNAPP

In an ongoing effort to help security organizations gain greater visibility into risk, we're pleased to offer this complimentary Gartner research, and share our 4 Takeaways from the 2023 Gartner® Market Guide for CNAPP. This critical research can help security leaders take an in-depth look into...

[The Lost Bots] S03E02: Finding unknowns, even spy balloons

!\The Lost Bots\ S03E02: Finding unknowns, even spy balloonshttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2023/04/The-Lost-Bots-logo-large.png When a balloon crossed through Canada and the United States, everyone lost their minds. The news was all-balloon, all-the-time. And the big, obvious, serious...

Demystifying XDR: Where SIEM and XDR Collide

Innovations solve longstanding problems in creative, impactful ways — but they also raise new questions, especially when they're in the liminal space between being an emerging idea and a fully fledged, widely adopted reality. One of the still-unanswered questions about extended detection and...