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When AI Accelerates Cloud Migrations, Don't Let Security Be an Afterthought
The era of on-premises infrastructure is quickly becoming a thing of the past, with research from Pluralsight showing that over 90% of organizations now leverage the cloud. What’s driving the even faster shift over the last few years? Consider AWS's foray into generative AI programs and agents fo...
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...
Metasploit Wrap-Up 10/03/2025
Windows LNK and Linux persistence This week, happybear-21 introduced four new modules that abuse Windows Shell Link LNK to execute various attacks. Three of these modules are designed to trigger authentication attempts to a remote server, facilitating the harvesting of NTLM authentication...
Rapid7 Extends Command Platform Capability with Middle East Region Launch
We’re excited to announce that Rapid7’s Command Platform expansion allows Exposure Command to be available in a new AWS region in the Middle East with the API name, me-central-1. This AWS addition gives organizations across the region faster access to our leading exposure management platform — an...
CVE-2025-6543: Zero Day Exploitation of NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway
Overview On June 25, 2025, Cloud Software Group published a security bulletin for CVE-2025-6543, a new vulnerability affecting NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway. The vendor has described CVE-2025-6543 as a “Memory overflow vulnerability leading to unintended control flow and Denial of Service”...
Key Takeaways from the Take Command Summit 2025: Outpacing the Adversary – Red Teaming in a Complex Threat Landscape
The evolving complexity of modern infrastructures calls for more than traditional pen testing. In this session from the Take Command 2025 Virtual Cybersecurity Summit, red team experts shared how organizations are using continuous testing to outpace attackers — and better prepare their teams to...
CVE-2025-6759: Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops - Local Privilege Escalation (FIXED)
Overview During a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure VDI breakout assessment, Rapid7 identified a Local Privilege Escalation LPE vulnerability affecting Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops. This issue was assigned CVE-2025-6759 and has a CVSS score of 7.3 High. Rapid7 observed a SYSTEM process handle wi...
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...
Patch Tuesday - May 2025
Microsoft is addressing 77 vulnerabilities this May 2025 Patch Tuesday. Microsoft has evidence of in-the-wild exploitation for five of the vulnerabilities published today, and these are already reflected in CISA KEV. Separately, Microsoft is aware of existing public disclosure for two...
Why is Ransomware Still a Thing in 2025?
When was the last time you had a serious conversation about cybersecurity that didn’t touch on ransomware? We all know that it’s one of the most persistent and damaging threats out there. Yet, this isn’t because it’s new—ransomware’s been around since 1989—but because we are making it far too eas...
From Exposure to Assurance: Unified Remediation Across the Security Lifecycle
When it comes to defending your organization, every second counts. The time to detect, respond, and remediate is critical, but speed alone isn't enough. Fragmentation across security tools, siloed teams, and manual workflows leaves organizations constantly reactive, overwhelmed by alerts, and at...
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...
Inside the Take Command Summit 2025 Agenda: What’s in Store for This Year’s Event?
The cybersecurity landscape is shifting fast—ransomware is evolving, AI is reshaping security operations, and regulations are becoming more complex than ever. Security teams are under pressure to outpace adversaries, manage risk, and defend against sophisticated threats. That’s why Take Command...
MDR + SIEM: Why Full Access to Your Security Logs is Non-Negotiable
Many Managed Detection and Response MDR providers promise world-class threat detection, but behind the scenes they lock away your security logs, limiting your visibility and control. It’s your data — so why don’t you have full access to it? Isn’t the whole point of security to see everything...
Patch Tuesday - January 2025
Microsoft is addressing 161 vulnerabilities this January 2025 Patch Tuesday. Microsoft has evidence of in-the-wild exploitation and/or public disclosure for eight of the vulnerabilities published today, with three listed on CISA KEV. This is now the fourth consecutive month where Microsoft has...
2024 Threat Landscape Statistics: Ransomware Activity, Vulnerability Exploits, and Attack Trends
Now that we’ve reached the end of another year, you may be looking around the cybersecurity infosphere and seeing a glut of posts offering “hot takes” on the 2024 threat landscape and predictions about what’s coming next. At Rapid7, we don’t truck in hot takes, but rather, cold hard facts. Stayin...
Expanded SOC Coverage Into AWS Environments with Rapid7 MXDR
Co-athored by Mikayla Wyman and Ryan Blanchard As organizations increasingly rely on AWS for scalability and innovation, the complexity of securing these environments grows. AWS offers a robust set of native services and a comprehensive ecosystem, but managing security signals and responding to...
Accelerate Mean Time to Exposure Remediation Across Hybrid Environments with Remediation Hub
As organizations continue to scale their digital infrastructure, the volume of vulnerabilities and exposures grows at an overwhelming pace. Security teams often find themselves inundated with alerts and risk signals, unable to remediate every issue within their environment. They often struggle to...
Building a Custom Risk Prioritization and Risk Scoring Methodology with Surface Command
Over the 15 years I spent as a practitioner and consultant prior to joining Rapid7, a metric that I found to be ever elusive was a true custom prioritization score. You could get close- with enough time, energy, spreadsheets, and logs. But even then it wasn’t without fault. There were still...
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...
Key Takeaways From The Take Command Summit: Navigating New SEC Cybersecurity Disclosure Rules
Understanding and complying with the new SEC Cybersecurity Disclosure Rules is a daunting task for many organizations. The Rapid7 Take Command Summit provided an in-depth look at these regulations, offering valuable guidance for cybersecurity professionals. Here are three key takeaways from the...
Keys to the Kingdom - Gaining access to the Physical Facility through Internal Access
This is a story of network segmentation and the impact that seemingly trivial misconfigurations can have for your organization. This is one of those occasions. This particular pen test asked for goals-based assessment focusing on post-compromise activities — an attempt by the client to discover h...
CVE-2024-6922: Automation Anywhere Automation 360 Server-Side Request Forgery
Automation 360 Robotic Process Automation suite v21-v32 is vulnerable to unauthenticated Server-Side Request Forgery SSRF. SSRF occurs when the server can be induced to perform arbitrary requests on behalf of an attacker. An attacker with unauthenticated access to the Automation 360 Control Room...
Patch Tuesday - June 2024
It’s June 2024 Patch Tuesday. Microsoft is addressing 51 vulnerabilities today, and has evidence of public disclosure for just a single one of those. At time of writing, none of the vulnerabilities published today are listed on CISA KEV, although this is always subject to change. Microsoft is...
Velociraptor 0.7.2 Release: Digging Deeper than Ever with EWF Support, Dynamic DNS and More
By Dr. Mike Cohen and Carlos Canto Rapid7 is very excited to announce that version 0.7.2 of Velociraptor is now fully available for download. In this post we’ll discuss some of the interesting new features. EWF Support Velociraptor has introduced the ability to analyze dead disk images in the pas...
Rapid7 Takes Next Step in AI Innovation with New AI-Powered Threat Detections
Digital transformation has created immense opportunity to generate new revenue streams, better engage with customers and drive operational efficiency. A decades-long transition to cloud as the de-facto delivery model of choice has delivered undeniable value to the business landscape. But any chan...
Multiple Vulnerabilities in South River Technologies Titan MFT and Titan SFTP [FIXED]
As part of our continuing research project into managed file transfer risk, including JSCAPE MFT and Fortra Globalscape EFT Server, Rapid7 discovered several vulnerabilities in South River Technologies’ Titan MFT and Titan SFTP servers. Although these require unusual circumstances or non-default...
New InsightCloudSec Compliance Pack for CIS AWS Benchmark 2.0.0
The Center for Internet Security CIS recently released version two of their AWS Benchmark. CIS AWS Benchmark 2.0.0 brings two new recommendations and eliminates one from the previous version. The update also includes some minor formatting changes to certain recommendation descriptions. In this...
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 08/22/2025
An Early Festivus Airing of Grievances Want to tell us how much you like us? We hope! Want to tell us how much you hate us? We hope not! We are somewhat familiar with the reclusive security expert lifestyle, as it is our own, but we are asking our users and non-users to steel themselves and take ...
Introducing: The Metasploit Pro AD CS Metamodule
Introducing the AD CS Workflows MetaModule: Now Generally Available in Metasploit Pro We're excited to announce that the AD CS Workflows MetaModule has officially moved from early access to general availability in Metasploit Pro! This powerful new feature represents a significant advancement in...
Scattered Spider: Rapid7 Insights, Observations, and Recommendations
Overview of Scattered Spider and recent activity Scattered Spider also tracked as UNC3944, Scatter Swine, Muddled Libra, among other aliases is a financially motivated cybercriminal group active since at least May 2022. The group is notorious for targeting large enterprises — especially...
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...
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...
Take Command 2025: A Day of Insight, Innovation, and Impact
Take Command 2025 is officially in the books. From the opening sessions to the final takeaways, the summit delivered a full day of high-impact discussions, fresh research, and powerful stories from across the cybersecurity spectrum. This year’s event brought together cybersecurity leaders,...
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...
2025 Ransomware: Business as Usual, Business is Booming
Getting an edge on your adversaries involves understanding their behaviors and their mindset. Rapid7 Labs took a look at internal and publicly-available ransomware data for Q1 2025 and added our own insights to provide a picture of the year thus far—and what you can do now to reduce your attack...
Why MDR In 2025 Is About Scaling With Purpose
Forrester recently released “The Forrester Wave™: Managed Detection and Response MDR Services, Q1 2025,", highlighting the top 10 MDR providers out of more than 600 worldwide. While we’re honored to be recognized in such a competitive market, Rapid7’s designation underscores a fundamental...
How To Protect Your Organization's Bluesky Account From Security Threats
When a new platform suddenly becomes popular, it’s not uncommon to see it stress tested by malware authors and fraudsters. Many organizations are making the leap to Bluesky without necessarily understanding the potential threats to an account and the business should a compromise take place. This...
Modular Java Backdoor Dropped in Cleo Exploitation Campaign
Many thanks to Rapid7 MDR and incident response teams for their contributions to this analysis. While investigating incidents related to Cleo software exploitation, Rapid7 Labs and MDR observed a novel, multi-stage attack that deploys an encoded Java Archive JAR payload. Our investigation reveale...
Rapid7 Extends Cloud Security Capabilities with Updates to Exposure Command
The cloud has become the backbone of modern innovation, powering everything from AI to remote work. But as organizations embrace the cloud, they also face an ever-expanding and increasingly complex attack surface. With purpose-built harvesting technology providing real-time visibility into...
Ransomware Groups Demystified: CyberVolk Ransomware
As part of our ongoing efforts to monitor emerging cyber threats, we have analyzed the activities of CyberVolk, a politically motivated hacktivist group that transitioned into using ransomware and has been active since June 2024. Unlike traditional ransomware groups, CyberVolk initially positione...
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...
Celebrating Excellence: Rapid7 Recognized in Newsweek's Greatest Workplaces in America 2024
In a testament to its commitment to fostering an exceptional workplace environment, Rapid7 is proud to be included in Newsweek's Greatest Workplaces in America for 2024. This recognition not only underscores Rapid7's dedication to its people, but also cements its standing among companies that...
Key Takeaways From The Take Command Summit: Building Resilient Cyber Defenses Through AI
One of the most talked-about sessions at the Take Command 2024 Cybersecurity Virtual Summit,"Control the Chaos: Building Resilient Cyber Defenses Through AI," featured experts from AWS and Rapid7 exploring how artificial intelligence is transforming cybersecurity and sharing practical guidance on...
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 ...
Enhancing Velociraptor with the Cado Security Platform
By: Nicholas Handy, Director of Technical Alliances & Partnerships at Cado Security Velociraptor is a robust open-source tool designed for collecting and querying forensic and incident response artifacts across various endpoints. This powerful tool allows incident responders to effortlessly gathe...
Securing the Next Level: Automated Cloud Defense in Game Development with InsightCloudSec
Imagine the following scenario: You're about to enjoy a strategic duel on chess.com or dive into an intense battle in Fortnite, but as you log in, you find your hard-earned achievements, ranks, and reputation have vanished into thin air. This is not just a hypothetical scenario but a real...
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...
Aligning to AWS Foundational Security Best Practices With InsightCloudSec
Written by Ryan Blanchard and James Alaniz When an organization is moving their IT infrastructure to the cloud or expanding with net-new investment, one of the hardest tasks for the security team is to identify and establish the proper security policies and controls to keep their cloud environmen...
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...