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Peeking into the crystal ball: What 2023 cyber threats told us about 2024
By Raj Samani, SVP Chief Scientist, and Sabeen Malik, Vice President, Global Government Affairs and Public Policy at Rapid7 Stepping into 2024 feels like opening the latest best-selling mystery novel – you know there's adventure ahead, but the plot is still up in the air. In the twist-riddled wor...
Living our Values and Leveraging Diverse Skill Sets: How Jonathan Atwood Built a Successful Career as a Customer Advisor at Rapid7
At Rapid7, our Customer Advisors play a pivotal role at ensuring our customers understand their threat landscape – and feel confident in their security programs. By collaborating across various internal teams, strengthening customer relationships, and proactively seeking solutions and advocating...
Metasploit Wrap-Up 12/8/2023
Are You Looking for ACTION? Our very own adfoster-r7 has added a new feature that adds module actions, targets, and aliases to the search feature in Metasploit Framework. As we continue to add modules with diverse goals or targets, we’ve found ourselves leaning on these flags more and more...
A Trusted Voice in a Crowded Market: Meet Joanne Guariglia, Senior Channel Account Manager at Rapid7
When you’re a seller, it’s important to represent a reputable brand and products you can stand behind. For many companies, their partners act as an extension of the sales team to help identify and engage new customers. As a Senior Channel Account Manager, Joanne Guariglia shares what she loves mo...
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...
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up
Customizable DNS resolution Contributor smashery added a new dns command to Metasploit console, which allows the user to customize the behavior of DNS resolution. Similarly to the route command, it is now possible to specify where DNS requests should be sent to avoid any information leak. Before...
CVE-2023-49103 - Critical Information Disclosure in ownCloud Graph API
Rapid7 is responding to CVE-2023-49103, an unauthenticated information disclosure vulnerability impacting ownCloud. Background ownCloud is a file sharing platform designed for enterprise environments. On November 21, 2023, ownCloud disclosed CVE-2023-49103, an unauthenticated information disclosu...
Attackers are Working Around The Clock. Luckily, So Are We.
It takes an average of 204 days for organizations to discover a breach, and from there an average of 73 days to contain it. With the average cost of a breach at an all time high of $4.45 million IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report 2023, there’s an undeniable need for teams to enlist the right...
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...
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...
Updates to Layered Context Enable Teams to Quickly Understand Which Risk Signals Are Most Pressing
Layered Context introduced a consolidated view of all security risks insightCloudSec collects from the various layers of a cloud environment. This enabled our customers to go from visibility into individual security risks on a resource, to understanding all of the risks that impacted that resourc...
Updates to Layered Context Enable Teams to Quickly Understand Which Risk Signals Are Most Pressing
Layered Context introduced a consolidated view of all security risks insightCloudSec collects from the various layers of a cloud environment. This enabled our customers to go from visibility into individual security risks on a resource, to understanding all of the risks that impacted that resourc...
Building our Team in Prague: Meet Martin Votruba
From developing driver-assistance software for a luxury car brand to jumping on board an NFT startup, Martin Votruba, Lead Software Engineer, is not one to shy away from a challenge. In September of 2023, joined Rapid7 as the first hire in its new Prague office. Martin is leveraging Rapid7’s...
Metasploit Wrap-up
Enhancements and features 2 18548 from zeroSteiner - Updates the admin/http/tomcatghostcat module to follow newer library conventions. 18552 from adfoster-r7 - Adds support for Ruby 3.3.0-preview3. Bugs fixed 5 18448 from HynekPetrak - Fixes and updates the...
When Maximum Effort Doesn't Equate to Maximum Results
It’s no secret that security teams are feeling beleaguered as a result of the barrage of data, events, and alerts generated by their security tools, to say nothing of the increased budget scrutiny and constrained staff resources that continue to plague cybersecurity practitioners. The trick is...
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...
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...
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up
Possible Web Service Removal Metasploit has support for running with a local database, or from a remote web service which can be initialized with msfdb init --component webservice. Future versions of Metasploit Framework may remove the msfdb remote webservice. Users that leverage this functionali...
Manage Enterprise Risk at Scale with a Unified, Holistic Approach
The rapid pace of technological change and the attendant rise of cyber threats in both speed and number leave most organizations at a disadvantage. Historically, many firms faced this challenge simply by purchasing more technology in the hopes that the latest threat protection software would keep...
Manage Enterprise Risk at Scale with a Unified, Holistic Approach
The rapid pace of technological change and the attendant rise of cyber threats in both speed and number leave most organizations at a disadvantage. Historically, many firms faced this challenge simply by purchasing more technology in the hopes that the latest threat protection software would keep...
Patch Tuesday - November 2023
Microsoft is addressing 64 vulnerabilities this November Patch Tuesday, including five zero-day vulnerabilities as well as one critical remote code execution RCE vulnerability. Overall, this month sees significantly fewer vulnerabilities addressed across a smaller number of products than has been...
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up
Apache MQ and Three Cisco Modules in a Trenchcoat This week’s release has a lot of new content and features modules targeting two major recent vulnerabilities that got a great deal of attention: CVE-2023-46604 targeting Apache MQ resulting in ransomware deployment and CVE-2023-20198 targeting Cis...
CVE-2023-5950 Rapid7 Velociraptor Reflected XSS
This advisory covers a specific issue identified in Velociraptor and disclosed by a security code review. We want to thank Mathias Kujala for working with the Velociraptor team to identify and rectify this issue. It has been fixed as of Version 0.7.0-4, released November 6, 2023. CVSS · HIGH ·...
CVE-2023-5950 Rapid7 Velociraptor Reflected XSS
This advisory covers a specific issue identified in Velociraptor and disclosed by a security code review. We want to thank Mathias Kujala for working with the Velociraptor team to identify and rectify this issue. It has been fixed as of Version 0.7.0-4, released November 6, 2023. CVSS · HIGH ·...
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...
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...
NEW RESEARCH: Artificial intelligence and Machine Learning Can Be Used to Stop DAST Attacks Before they Start
Within cloud security, one of the most prevalent tools is dynamic application security testing, or DAST. DAST is a critical component of a robust application security framework, identifying vulnerabilities in your cloud applications either pre or post deployment that can be remediated for a...
CVE-2023-47246: SysAid Zero-Day Vulnerability Exploited By Lace Tempest
On November 8, 2023, IT service management company SysAid disclosed CVE-2023-47426, a zero-day path traversal vulnerability affecting on-premise SysAid servers. According to Microsoft’s threat intelligence team, it has been exploited in the wild by DEV-0950 Lace Tempest in “limited attacks.” In a...
GhostLocker - A “Work In Progress” RaaS
This post was also authored by Anna Širokova Executive Summary In recent years, there has been a noticeable uptick in threat actors venturing into the realm of Ransom-as-a-Service RaaS. Some have emerged as significant threats, while others have faded into obscurity. What makes the current...
Setup of Discovery Connection Azure
By: fuzzy borders Are you having trouble trying to get your Azure assets into your InsightVM security console? In this blog post, we wanted to bring additional insight into leveraging the Azure Discovery Connection with InsightVM. This blog post is brought to you by the Fuzzy Borders project, who...
Rapid7-Observed Exploitation of Atlassian Confluence CVE-2023-22518
Daniel Lydon and Conor Quinn contributed attacker behavior insights to this blog. As of November 5, 2023, Rapid7 Managed Detection and Response MDR is observing exploitation of Atlassian Confluence in multiple customer environments, including for ransomware deployment. We have confirmed that at...
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up
PTT for DCSync This week, community member smashery made an improvement to the windowssecretsdump module to enable it to dump domain hashes using the DCSync method after having authenticated with a Kerberos ticket. Now, if a user has a valid Kerberos ticket for a privileged account, they can run...
Suspected Exploitation of Apache ActiveMQ CVE-2023-46604
Tom Elkins, John Fenninger, Evan McCann, Matthew Smith, and Micah Young contributed attacker behavior insights to this blog. Beginning Friday, October 27, Rapid7 Managed Detection and Response MDR identified suspected exploitation of Apache ActiveMQ CVE-2023-46604 in two different customer...
Is That Smart Home Technology Secure? Here’s How You Can Find Out.
As someone who likes the convenience of smart home Internet of Things IoT technology, I am regularly on the lookout for products that meet my expectations while also considering security and privacy concerns. Smart technology should never be treated differently than how we as consumers look at...
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up
New module content 4 Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Server Authentication Bypass via Broken Access Control Authors: Emir Polat and Unknown Type: Auxiliary Pull request: 18447 contributed by emirpolatt Path: admin/http/atlassianconfluenceauthbypass AttackerKB reference: CVE-2023-22515...
CVE-2023-4966: Exploitation of Citrix NetScaler Information Disclosure Vulnerability
On October 10, 2023, Citrix published an advisory on two vulnerabilities affecting NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway. The more critical of these two issues is CVE-2023-4966, a sensitive information disclosure vulnerability that allows an attacker to read large amounts of memory after the end of...
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up
That Privilege Escalation Escalated Quickly This release features a module leveraging CVE-2023-22515, a vulnerability in Atlassian’s on-premises Confluence Server first listed as a privilege escalation, but quickly recategorized as a “broken access control” with a CVSS score of 10. The exploit...
CVE-2023-20198: Active Exploitation of Cisco IOS XE Zero-Day Vulnerability
On Monday, October 16, Cisco’s Talos group published a blog on an active threat campaign exploiting CVE-2023-20198, a “previously unknown” zero-day vulnerability in the web UI component of Cisco IOS XE software. IOS XE is an operating system that runs on a wide range of Cisco networking devices,...
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...
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...
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...
Multiple Vulnerabilities in South River Technologies Titan MFT and Titan SFTP [FIXED]
!Multiple Vulnerabilities in South River Technologies Titan MFT and Titan SFTP \FIXED\https://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2023/10/vuln-disclosure-banner.jpeg As part of our continuing research project into managed file transfer risk, including JSCAPE MFT and Fortra Globalscape EFT Server, Rapi...
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up
Pollution in Kibana This week, contributor h00die added a module that leverages a prototype pollution bug in Kibana prior to version 7.6.3. Particularly, this issue is within the Upgrade Assistant and enables an attacker to execute arbitrary code. This vulnerability can be triggered by sending a...
The Risks of Exposing DICOM Data to the Internet
Introduction Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine DICOM is the international standard for the transmission, storage, retrieval, print, and display of medical images and related information. While DICOM has revolutionized the medical imaging industry, allowing for enhanced patient care...
Patch Tuesday - October 2023
Microsoft is addressing 105 vulnerabilities this October Patch Tuesday, including three zero-day vulnerabilities, as well as 12 critical remote code execution RCE vulnerabilities, and one republished third-party vulnerability. WordPad: zero-day NTLM hash disclosure Another Patch Tuesday, another...
Metasploit Weekly Wrap Up
New module content 3 LDAP Login Scanner Author: Dean Welch Type: Auxiliary Pull request: 18197 contributed by dwelch-r7 Path: scanner/ldap/ldaplogin Description: This PR adds a new login scanner module for LDAP. Login scanners are the classes that provide functionality for testing authentication...
Little Crumbs Can Lead To Giants
This week is the Virus Bulletin Conference in London. Part of the conference is the Cyber Threat Alliance summit, where CTA members like Rapid7 showcase their research into all kinds of cyber threats and techniques. Traditionally, when we investigate a campaign, the focus is mostly on the code of...
What’s New in Rapid7 Detection & Response: Q3 2023 in Review
This post takes a look at some of the investments we've made throughout Q3 2023 to our Detection and Response offerings to provide advanced DFIR capabilities with Velociraptor, more flexibility with custom detection rules, enhancements to our dashboard and log search features, and more. Stop...
CVE-2023-22515: Zero-Day Privilege Escalation in Confluence Server and Data Center
On October 4, 2023, Atlassian published a security advisory on CVE-2023-22515, a critical vulnerability affecting on-premises instances of Confluence Server and Confluence Data Center. CVE-2023-22515 was originally announced as a privilege escalation vulnerability, but was later changed to a brok...
Proactively Prevent Breaches with Expanded Endpoint Protection in Rapid7 MDR
Working with thousands of security and risk professionals across the globe, we know that complexity is the top challenge SOCs are facing today. As the attack surface rapidly expands, security teams need more effective ways to keep pace with digital transformation and get out of the cycle of...