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What’s New in Rapid7 Products & Services: Q2 2024 in Review
This quarter we continued to make investments that provide security professionals with a holistic, actionable view of their entire attack surface. In Q2, we focused on enhancing visualization, prioritization, and integration capabilities across our key products and services. Below we’ve highlight...
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...
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...
Boston Business Journal Names Rapid7 as a Best Place to Work in Boston
On June 13th, 2024, Rapid7 was recognized by The Boston Business Journal as a Best Place to Work in Boston. This marks the 13th consecutive year Rapid7 has made the list, this time coming in at 8 in the extra large company category. Best Places to Work rankings are based on anonymous employee...
Rapid7 completes IRAP PROTECTED assessment for Insight Platform solutions
Exciting news from Australia! Rapid7 has successfully completed an Information Security Registered Assessors Program IRAP assessment to PROTECTED Level for several of our Insight Platform solutions. What is IRAP? An IRAP assessment is an independent assessment of the implementation,...
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 07/05/2024
I still like to MOVEit MOVEit This week, our very own sfewer-r7 added a new exploit module that leverages an authentication bypass vulnerability in the MOVEit Transfer SFTP service CVE-2024-5806. It is possible to authenticate to the SFTP service as any user as long as a valid username is known a...
Takeaways From The Take Command Summit: Navigating Modern SOC Challenges
At our recent Take Command summit, experts delved into the pressing challenges faced by SOC teams. With 2,365 more data breaches in 2023 than in 2022 74% of which were a direct result of cyber attacks, the need for robust security operations has never been greater. Key takeaways from the 25 minut...
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 06/28/2024
Unauthenticated Command Injection in Netis Router This week's Metasploit release includes an exploit module for an unauthenticated command injection vulnerability in the Netis MW5360 router which is being tracked as CVE-2024-22729. The vulnerability stems from improper handling of the password...
Supply Chain Compromise Leads to Trojanized Installers for Notezilla, RecentX, Copywhiz
The following Rapid7 analysts contributed to this research: Leo Gutierrez, Tyler McGraw, Sarah Lee, and Thomas Elkins. Executive Summary On Tuesday, June 18th, 2024, Rapid7 initiated an investigation into suspicious activity in a customer environment. Our investigation identified that the...
Supply Chain Compromise Leads to Trojanized Installers for Notezilla, RecentX, Copywhiz
The following Rapid7 analysts contributed to this research: Leo Gutierrez, Tyler McGraw, Sarah Lee, and Thomas Elkins. Executive Summary On Tuesday, June 18th, 2024, Rapid7 initiated an investigation into suspicious activity in a customer environment. Our investigation identified that the...
Takeaways From The Take Command Summit: Unprecedented Threat Landscape
The Rapid7 Take Command summit unveiled crucial findings from the 2024 Attack Intelligence Report, offering invaluable insights for cybersecurity professionals navigating today's complex threat landscape. Key takeaways from the 30 minute panel: 1. Rise of Zero-Day Exploits: 53% of mass compromise...
Authentication Bypasses in MOVEit Transfer and MOVEit Gateway
On June 25, 2024, Progress Software published information on two new vulnerabilities in MOVEit Transfer and MOVEit Gateway: CVE-2024-5806, a critical authentication bypass affecting the MOVEit Transfer SFTP service in a default configuration; and CVE-2024-5805, a critical SFTP-associated...
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...
From Top Dogs to Unified Pack
Embracing a consolidated security ecosystem Authored by Ralph Wascow Cybersecurity is as unpredictable as it is rewarding. Each day often presents a new set of challenges and responsibilities, particularly as organizations accelerate digital transformation efforts. This means you and your cyber...
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 06/21/2024
Argument Injection for PHP on Windows This week includes modules that target file traversal and arbitrary file read vulnerabilities for software such as Apache, SolarWinds and Check Point, with the highlight being a module for the recent PHP vulnerability submitted by sfewer-r7. This module...
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...
Helpful tools to get started in IoT Assessments
The Internet of Things IoT can be a daunting field to get into. With many different tools and products available on the market it can be confusing to even know where to start. Having performed dozens of IoT assessments, I felt it would be beneficial to compile a basic list of items that are...
Malvertising Campaign Leads to Execution of Oyster Backdoor
The following analysts contributed to this blog: Thomas Elkins, Daniel Thiede, Josh Lockwood, Tyler McGraw, and Sasha Kovalev. Executive Summary Rapid7 has observed a recent malvertising campaign that lures users into downloading malicious installers for popular software such as Google Chrome and...
Malvertising Campaign Leads to Execution of Oyster Backdoor
The following analysts contributed to this blog: Thomas Elkins, Daniel Thiede, Josh Lockwood, Tyler McGraw, and Sasha Kovalev. Executive Summary Rapid7 has observed a recent malvertising campaign that lures users into downloading malicious installers for popular software such as Google Chrome and...
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 06/14/2024
New module content 5 Telerik Report Server Auth Bypass Authors: SinSinology and Spencer McIntyre Type: Auxiliary Pull request: 19242 contributed by zeroSteiner Path: scanner/http/telerikreportserverauthbypass AttackerKB reference: CVE-2024-4358 Description: This adds an exploit for CVE-2024-4358...
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...
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...
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...
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...
CVE-2024-28995: Trivially Exploitable Information Disclosure Vulnerability in SolarWinds Serv-U
On June 5, 2024, SolarWinds disclosed CVE-2024-28995, a high-severity directory traversal vulnerability affecting their Serv-U file transfer server, which comes in two editions Serv-U FTP and Serv-U MFT. Successful exploitation of the vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to read sensiti...
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 06/07/2024
New OSX payloads:ARMed and Dangerous In addition to an RCE leveraging CVE-2024-5084 to gain RCE through a WordPress Hash form, this release features the addition of several new binary OSX stageless payloads with aarch64 support: Execute Command, Shell Bind TCP, and Shell Reverse TCP. The new...
Securing AI Development in the Cloud: Navigating the Risks and Opportunities
AI-TRiSM - Trust, Risk and Security Management in the Age of AI Co-authored by Lara Sunday and Pojan Shahrivar As artificial intelligence AI and machine learning ML technologies continue to advance and proliferate, organizations across industries are investing heavily in these transformative...
Securing AI Development in the Cloud: Navigating the Risks and Opportunities
AI-TRiSM - Trust, Risk and Security Management in the Age of AI Co-authored by Lara Sunday and Pojan Shahrivar As artificial intelligence AI and machine learning ML technologies continue to advance and proliferate, organizations across industries are investing heavily in these transformative...
The Dreaded Network Pivot: An Attack Intelligence Story
Rapid7 recently released our 2024 Attack Intelligence Report, a 14-month deep dive into the vulnerability and attacker landscape. The spiritual successor to our annual Vulnerability Intelligence Report, the AIR includes data from the Rapid7 research team combined with our detection and response a...
New! Insight Agent Support for ARM-based Windows in InsightVM
We are pleased to introduce Insight Agent support of ARM-based Windows 11 devices for both vulnerability and policy assessment within InsightVM. Customers with Windows 11 devices powered by ARM processors can now take advantage of the great performance and lower power requirements of these chips...
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 05/31/2024
Quis dīrumpet ipsos dīrumpēs In this release, we feature a double-double: two exploits each targeting two pieces of software. The first pair is from h00die targeting the Jasmine Ransomeware Web Server. The first uses CVE-2024-30851 to retrieve the login for the ransomware server, and the second i...
CVE-2024-24919: Check Point Security Gateway Information Disclosure
On May 28, 2024, Check Point published an advisory for CVE-2024-24919, a high-severity information disclosure vulnerability affecting Check Point Security Gateway devices configured with either the “IPSec VPN” or “Mobile Access” software blade. On May 29, 2024, security firm mnemonic published a...
Celebrating Excellence: Joanne Guariglia and Kelly Hiscoe Recognized as CRN's 2024 Women of the Channel
We are thrilled to announce that two of our exceptional team members, Joanne Guariglia and Kelly Hiscoe, have been recognized as CRN's 2024 Women of the Channel. This recognition celebrates the achievements and leadership of women within the channel community, and we are incredibly proud to see...
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 05/23/2024
Infiltrate the Broadcast! A new module from Chocapikk allows the user to perform remote code execution on vulnerable versions of streaming platform AVideo 12.4 - 14.2. The multi/http/avideowwbnindexunauthrce module leverages CVE-2024-31819, a vulnerability to PHP Filter Chaining, to gain...
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...
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...
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...
Rapid7 Releases the 2024 Attack Intelligence Report
Today, during our Take Command Summit, we released our 2024 Attack Intelligence Report, which pulls in expertise from our researchers, our detection and response teams, and threat intelligence teams. The result is the clearest picture yet of the expanding attack surface and the threats security...
Metasploit Wrap-Up 05/17/2024
LDAP Authentication Improvements This week, in Metasploit v6.4.9, the team has added multiple improvements for LDAP related attacks. Two improvements relating to authentication is the new support for Signing and Channel Binding. Microsoft has been making changes to harden the communications to...
See a Sneak Peek of Tuesday’s Take Command Summit
In just a few short days, some of the best minds in cybersecurity will come together at Take Command to discuss the most pressing challenges and opportunities we face as an industry. The sessions include in-depth discussions on attacker trends and behaviors, a look into the Rapid7 SOC, top guest...
AI Trust Risk and Security Management: Why Tackle Them Now?
Co-authored by Sabeen Malik and Laura Ellis In the evolving world of artificial intelligence AI, keeping our customers secure and maintaining their trust is our top priority. As AI technologies integrate more deeply into our daily operations and services, they bring a set of unique challenges tha...
Patch Tuesday - May 2024
Microsoft is addressing 61 vulnerabilities this May 2024 Patch Tuesday. Microsoft has evidence of in-the-wild exploitation and/or public disclosure for three of the vulnerabilities published today. At time of writing, two of the vulnerabilities patched today are listed on CISA KEV. Microsoft is...
Patch Tuesday - May 2024
Microsoft is addressing 61 vulnerabilities this May 2024 Patch Tuesday. Microsoft has evidence of in-the-wild exploitation and/or public disclosure for three of the vulnerabilities published today. At time of writing, two of the vulnerabilities patched today are listed on CISA KEV. Microsoft is...
5 key MDR differentiators to look for to build stronger security resilience
Organizations looking to address the skills gap and bring greater efficiency as their business grows and their attack surface sprawls are turning to MDR providers at an accelerated pace. We’ve seen predictions from top analyst firms signaling the rapid rate of adoption of an MDR provider by 2025...
Ongoing Malvertising Campaign leads to Ransomware
Executive Summary Rapid7 has observed an ongoing campaign to distribute trojanized installers for WinSCP and PuTTY via malicious ads on commonly used search engines, where clicking on the ad leads to typo squatted domains. In at least one observed case, the infection has led to the attempted...
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...
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...
Metasploit Wrap-Up 05/10/2024
Password Spraying support Multiple bruteforce/login scanner modules have been updated to support a PASSWORDSPRAY module option. This work was completed in pull request 19079 from nrathaus as well as an additional update from our developers . When the password spraying option is set, the order of...
Ongoing Social Engineering Campaign Linked to Black Basta Ransomware Operators
Co-authored by Rapid7 analysts Tyler McGraw, Thomas Elkins, and Evan McCann Executive Summary Rapid7 has identified an ongoing social engineering campaign that has been targeting multiple managed detection and response MDR customers. The incident involves a threat actor overwhelming a user's emai...