The Business of Cybersecurity Ownership

Who exactly owns cybersecurity in your organisation? Authored by Sean Vogelenzang Many would say the answer is obvious. It’s the chief information security officer CISO and his or her team, of course. However, it’s not that simple. Sure, the CISO and their team are responsible for setting the...

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...

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...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 04/26/24

Rancher Modules This week, Metasploit community member h00die added the second of two modules targeting Rancher instances. These modules each leak sensitive information from vulnerable instances of the application which is intended to manage Kubernetes clusters. These are a great addition to...

USF College of Engineering Presents Rapid7 With 2024 Corporate Impact Award

This past Friday, April 19, the University of South Florida USF College of Engineering recognized individuals and organizations who have greatly impacted USF and beyond at its ninth annual Engineering Honors Awards at The Armature Works in Tampa. I had the honor of joining my colleagues, includin...

Unauthenticated CrushFTP Zero-Day Enables Complete Server Compromise

Rapid7 vulnerability researcher Ryan Emmons contributed to this blog. On Friday, April 19, 2024, managed file transfer vendor CrushFTP released information to a private mailing list on a new zero-day vulnerability affecting versions below 10.7.1 and 11.1.0 as well as legacy 9.x versions across al...

Take Command Summit: Take Breaches from Inevitable to Preventable on May 21

Registration is now open for Take Command, a day-long virtual summit in partnership with AWS. You do not want to miss it. You’ll get new attack intelligence, insight into AI disruption, transparent MDR partnerships, and more. In 2024, adversaries are using AI and new techniques, working in gangs...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 04/19/24

Welcome Ryan and the new CrushFTP module It's not every week we add an awesome new exploit module to the Framework while adding the original discoverer of the vulnerability to the Rapid7 team as well. We're very excited to welcome Ryan Emmons to the Emergent Threat Response team, which works...

Enforce and Report on PCI DSS v4 Compliance with Rapid7

The PCI Security Standards Council PCI SSC is a global forum that connects stakeholders from the payments and payment processing industries to craft and facilitate adoption of data security standards and relevant resources that enable safe payments worldwide. According to the PCI SSC website, “PC...

Rapid7 Insight Platform Achieves Level 2 TX-Ramp Authorization

Authored by Damon Cabanillas Rapid7's Insight Platform has officially achieved Level 2 Texas Risk and Authorization Management Program TX-RAMP authorization. This milestone marks a significant step forward in providing our customers peace-of-mind as well as the best end-to-end cloud security...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 04/12/24

Account Takeover using Shadow Credentials The new release of Metasploit Framework includes a Shadow Credentials module added by smashery used for reliably taking over an Active Directory user account or computer, and letting future authentication to happen as that account. This can be chained wit...

CVE-2024-3400: Critical Command Injection Vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks Firewalls

On Friday, April 12, Palo Alto Networks published an advisory on CVE-2024-3400, a CVSS 10 zero-day vulnerability in several versions of PAN-OS, the operating system that runs on the company’s firewalls. According to the vendor advisory, if conditions for exploitability are met, the vulnerability...

Stories from the SOC Part 2: MSIX Installer Utilizes Telegram Bot to Execute IDAT Loader

Rapid7’s Managed Detection and Response MDR team continuously monitors our customers' environments, identifying emerging threats and developing new detections. In August 2023, Rapid7 identified a new malware loader named the IDAT Loader. Malware loaders are a type of malicious software designed t...

Patch Tuesday - April 2024

Microsoft is addressing 149 vulnerabilities this April 2024 Patch Tuesday, which is significantly more than usual. For the second month in a row, Microsoft indicated that they weren't aware of prior public disclosure or exploitation in the wild for any of the vulnerabilities patched today. Howeve...

Patch Tuesday - April 2024

Microsoft is addressing 149 vulnerabilities this April 2024 Patch Tuesday, which is significantly more than usual. For the second month in a row, Microsoft indicated that they weren't aware of prior public disclosure or exploitation in the wild for any of the vulnerabilities patched today. Howeve...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 04/05/2024

New ESC4 Templates for AD CS Metasploit added capabilities for exploiting the ESC family of flaws in AD CS in Metasploit 6.3. The ESC4 technique in particular has been supported for some time now thanks to the adcscerttemplates module which enables users to read and write certificate template...

What’s New in Rapid7 Products & Services: Q1 2024 in Review

We kicked off 2024 with a continued focus on bringing security professionals which if you're reading this blog, is likely you! the tools and functionality needed to anticipate risks, pinpoint threats, and respond faster with confidence. Below we’ve highlighted some key releases and updates from...

CVE-2024-0394: Rapid7 Minerva Armor Privilege Escalation (FIXED)

Rapid7 is disclosing CVE-2024-0394, a privilege escalation vulnerability in Rapid7 Minerva’s Armor product family. Minerva uses the open-source OpenSSL library for cryptographic functions and to support secure communications. The root cause of this vulnerability is Minerva’s implementation of...

Challenges Drive Career Growth: Meet Rudina Tafhasaj

Starting a career for the first time in a new country can be intimidating. For Rudina Tafhasaj, her path to Senior Application Engineer at Rapid7 was paved with both unique challenges, and incredible rewards. Growing up, Rudina was inspired to get into technology by her older brother. “He loved...

Backdoored XZ Utils (CVE-2024-3094)

On Friday, March 29, after investigating anomalous behavior in his Debian sid environment, developer Andres Freund contacted an open-source security mailing list to share that he had discovered an upstream backdoor in widely used command line tool XZ Utils liblzma. The backdoor, added by an...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 03/29/2024

PHP code execution and Oversharepoint Here in the Northern Hemisphere, Spring is in the air: flowers, bees, pollen… a new Metasploit 6.4 release, and now, fresh on the heels of this new release is a bountiful crop of exploits, features, and bug-fixes. Leading the pack is a pair of 2024 PHP code...

Stories from the SOC Part 1: IDAT Loader to BruteRatel

Rapid7’s Managed Detection and Response MDR team continuously monitors our customers' environments, identifying emerging threats and developing new detections. In August 2023, Rapid7 identified a new malware loader named the IDAT Loader. Malware loaders are a type of malicious software designed t...

Metasploit Framework 6.4 Released

Today, Metasploit is pleased to announce the release of Metasploit Framework 6.4. It has been just over a year since the release of version 6.3 and the team has added many new features and improvements since then. For news reporters, please reach out to [email protected]. Kerberos Improvements...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 03/22/2024

New module content 1 OpenNMS Horizon Authenticated RCE Author: Erik Wynter Type: Exploit Pull request: 18618 contributed by ErikWynter Path: linux/http/opennmshorizonauthenticatedrce AttackerKB reference: CVE-2023-0872 Description: This module exploits built-in functionality in OpenNMS Horizon in...

Why The External Attack Surface Matters: An analysis into APAC related threat activities

Co-authors are Robin Long and Raj Samani Considerable focus within the cybersecurity industry has been placed on the attack surface of organizations, giving rise to external attack surface management EASM technologies as a means to monitor said surface. It would appear a reasonable approach, on t...

The Updated APT Playbook: Tales from the Kimsuky threat actor group

Co-authors are Christiaan Beek and Raj Samani Within Rapid7 Labs we continually track and monitor threat groups. This is one of our key areas of focus as we work to ensure that our ability to protect customers remains constant. As part of this process, we routinely identify evolving tactics from...

Rapid7 offers continued vulnerability coverage in the face of NVD delays

Recently, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST announced on the National Vulnerability Database NVD site that there would be delays in adding information on newly published CVEs. NVD enriches CVEs with basic details about a vulnerability like the vulnerability’s CVSS score,...

Metasploit Wrap-Up 03/15/2024

New module content 3 GitLab Password Reset Account Takeover Authors: asterion04 and h00die Type: Auxiliary Pull request: 18716 contributed by h00die Path: admin/http/gitlabpasswordresetaccounttakeover AttackerKB reference: CVE-2023-7028 Description: This adds an exploit module that leverages an...

Rapid7’s Ciara Cullinan Recognized as Community Trailblazer in Belfast Awards Program

At the 2024 Women Who Code She Rocks Awards, Rapid7 Software Engineer II Ciara Cullinan was recognized with their ‘Community Trailblazer’ award. According to Women Who Code, “This award celebrates the efforts of someone who brings people together and creates genuine connections in our tech...

Patch Tuesday - March 2024

Microsoft is addressing 60 vulnerabilities this March 2024 Patch Tuesday. Microsoft indicated that they aren’t aware of prior public disclosure or exploitation in the wild for any of the vulnerabilities patched today, which means no new additions to CISA KEV at time of writing. Microsoft is...

Metasploit Wrap-Up 03/08/2024

New module content 2 GitLab Tags RSS feed email disclosure Authors: erruquill and n00bhaxor Type: Auxiliary Pull request: 18821 contributed by n00bhaxor Path: gather/gitlabtagsrssfeedemaildisclosure AttackerKB reference: CVE-2023-5612 Description: This adds an auxiliary module that leverages an...

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...

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...

7 Rapid Questions with #77 Ray Bourque

We couldn’t pass up the opportunity to bring Boston Bruins legend Ray Bourque into the herd as we continue to expand our Bruins jersey sponsorship. Ray is an absolute hero to Bruins fans everywhere. He has cemented his status in the annals of Boston sports history through 21 seasons in the black...

Lessons from video game companies: automation unleashes robust monitoring & observability

Video game organizations need robust monitoring and observability solutions to stay one step ahead of cyber adversaries. Chances are, so do we all. In this blog post, we’ll delve into how monitoring and observability capabilities enable video game organizations to bolster their cybersecurity...

CVE-2024-27198 and CVE-2024-27199: JetBrains TeamCity Multiple Authentication Bypass Vulnerabilities (FIXED)

Overview In February 2024, Rapid7’s vulnerability research team identified two new vulnerabilities affecting JetBrains TeamCity CI/CD server: CVE-2024-27198 is an authentication bypass vulnerability in the web component of TeamCity that arises from an alternative path issue CWE-288 and has a CVSS...

CVE-2024-27198 and CVE-2024-27199: JetBrains TeamCity Multiple Authentication Bypass Vulnerabilities (FIXED)

Overview In February 2024, Rapid7’s vulnerability research team identified two new vulnerabilities affecting JetBrains TeamCity CI/CD server: CVE-2024-27198 is an authentication bypass vulnerability in the web component of TeamCity that arises from an alternative path issue CWE-288 and has a CVSS...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 03/01/2024

Connect the dots from authentication bypass to remote code execution This week, our very own sfewer-r7 added a new exploit module that leverages an authentication bypass vulnerability in ConnectWise ScreenConnect to achieve remote code execution. This vulnerability, CVE-2024-1709, affects all...

How To Hunt For UEFI Malware Using Velociraptor

UEFI threats have historically been limited in number and mostly implemented by nation state actors as stealthy persistence. However, the recent proliferation of Black Lotus on the dark web, Trickbot enumeration module late 2022, and Glupteba November 2023 indicates that this historical trend may...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 02/23/2024

LDAP Capture module Metasploit now has an LDAP capture module thanks to the work of JustAnda7. This work was completed as part of the Google Summer of Code program. When the module runs it will by default require privileges to listen on port 389. The module implements a default implementation for...

High-Risk Vulnerabilities in ConnectWise ScreenConnect

On February 19, 2024 ConnectWise disclosed two vulnerabilities in their ScreenConnect remote access software. Both vulnerabilities affect ScreenConnect 23.9.7 and earlier. Neither vulnerability had a CVE assigned at time of disclosure, but as of February 21, CVEs have been assigned to both issues...

Explanation of New Authenticated Scanning PCI DSS Requirement 11.3.1.2 in PCI DSS V4.0 and how InsightVM can help meet the Requirement

By: Dominick Vitolo, VP of Security Services, MegaplanIT As a Certified Qualified Security Assessor QSA company and a trusted Rapid7 partner, MegaplanIT is committed to guiding organizations through the complexities of compliance and security standards. PCI DSS version 4.0 is a significant update...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 02/16/2024

New Fetch Payload It has been almost a year since Metasploit released the new fetch payloads and since then, 43 of the 79 exploit modules have had support for fetch payloads. The original payloads supported transferring the second stage over HTTP, HTTPS and FTP. This week, Metasploit has expanded...

RCE to Sliver: IR Tales from the Field

Rapid7 Incident Response consultants Noah Hemker, Tyler Starks, and malware analyst Tom Elkins contributed analysis and insight to this blog. Rapid7 Incident Response was engaged to investigate an incident involving unauthorized access to two publicly-facing Confluence servers that were the sourc...

RCE to Sliver: IR Tales from the Field

Rapid7 Incident Response consultants Noah Hemker, Tyler Starks, and malware analyst Tom Elkins contributed analysis and insight to this blog. Rapid7 Incident Response was engaged to investigate an incident involving unauthorized access to two publicly-facing Confluence servers that were the sourc...

Paving a Path to Systems Administration: Naeem Jones’ Journey with Rapid7

Prior to becoming a Systems Administrator at Rapid7, Naeem Jones entered his career in cybersecurity through the Hack. Diversity program. Hack.Diversity is a program that connects talented Black and Latin/x students and early-career professionals with organizations that are looking to build...

Patch Tuesday - February 2024

Microsoft is addressing 73 vulnerabilities this February 2024 Patch Tuesday, including two actually, three! zero-day/exploited-in-the-wild vulnerabilities, both of which are already included on the CISA KEV list. Today also brings patches for two critical remote code execution RCE vulnerabilities...

CVE-2023-47218: QNAP QTS and QuTS Hero Unauthenticated Command Injection (FIXED)

Rapid7 has identified an unauthenticated command injection vulnerability in the QNAP operating system known as QTS and QuTS hero. QTS is a core part of the firmware for numerous QNAP entry- and mid-level Network Attached Storage NAS devices, and QuTS hero is a core part of the firmware for numero...

CVE-2023-47218: QNAP QTS and QuTS Hero Unauthenticated Command Injection (FIXED)

Rapid7 has identified an unauthenticated command injection vulnerability in the QNAP operating system known as QTS and QuTS hero. QTS is a core part of the firmware for numerous QNAP entry- and mid-level Network Attached Storage NAS devices, and QuTS hero is a core part of the firmware for numero...

Critical Fortinet FortiOS CVE-2024-21762 Exploited

On February 8, 2024 Fortinet disclosed multiple critical vulnerabilities affecting FortiOS, the operating system that runs on Fortigate SSL VPNs. The critical vulnerabilities include CVE-2024-21762, an out-of-bounds write vulnerability in SSLVPNd that could allow remote unauthenticated attackers ...