PenTales: Old Vulns, New Tricks

At Rapid7 we love a good pentest 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 highlig...

Old Blackmoon Trojan, NEW Monetization Approach

Rapid7 is tracking a new, more sophisticated and staged campaign using the Blackmoon trojan, which appears to have originated in November 2022. The campaign is actively targeting various businesses primarily in the USA and Canada. However, it is not used to steal credentials, instead, it implemen...

SonicWall Recommends Urgent Patching for GMS and Analytics CVEs

On Wednesday, July 12, 2023, security firm SonicWall published an urgent security advisory warning customers of 15 new vulnerabilities affecting on-premise instances of their Global Management System GMS and Analytics products. Four of the vulnerabilities carry critical severity ratings:...

Patch Tuesday - July 2023

Microsoft is addressing 130 vulnerabilities this July Patch Tuesday, including five zero-day vulnerabilities, and eight further critical remote code execution RCE vulnerabilities. Overall, it’s safe to say that this is a busier Patch Tuesday than the past couple of months. Note that the total cou...

CVE-2023-29298: Adobe ColdFusion Access Control Bypass

Rapid7 discovered an access control bypass vulnerability affecting Adobe ColdFusion, in a product feature designed to restrict external access to the ColdFusion Administrator. Rapid7 reported this vulnerability to Adobe on April 11, 2023 and we are now disclosing it in accordance with our...

What’s New in Rapid7 Detection & Response: Q2 2023 in Review

We are excited to share another quarter of new Detection & Response capabilities and improvements. As we continue to innovate across our platform, we thank our customers for continuous insight, engagement, and direction. Keenly focused on our mission to deliver solutions for consolidated,...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

Apache RocketMQ We saw some great teamwork this week from jheysel-r7 and h00die to bring you an exploit module for CVE-2023-33246. In Apache RocketMQ version 5.1.0 and under, there is an access control issue which the module leverages to update the broker's configuration file without...

The Japanese Automotive Industry Attack Landscape

Recently, we released a major report analyzing the threat landscape of Japan, the globe’s third largest economy. In that report we looked at the ways in which threat actors infiltrate Japanese companies spoiler alert: it is often through foreign subsidiaries and affiliates and some of the most...

PenTales: “User enumeration is not a vulnerability” – I beg to differ

At Rapid7 we love a good pentest 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 highlig...

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...

Alerting Rules!: InsightIDR Raises the Bar for Visibility and Coverage

By George Schneider, Information Security Manager at Listrak I've worked in cybersecurity for over two decades, so I've seen plenty of platforms come and go—some even crash and burn. But Rapid7, specifically InsightIDR, has consistently performed above expectations. In fact, InsightIDR has become...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

Nothing but .NET? Smashery continues to… smash it by updating our .NET assembly execution module. The original module allowed users to run a .NET exe as a thread within a process they created on a remote host. Smashery’s improvements let users run the executable within a thread of the process...

Four Signs You Need to Consolidate Your Tech Stack

Recently, Gartner surveyed security professionals and found that over 50% of the respondents were looking to consolidate their security tech stack. Why? These professionals recognized that security vendor consolidation is key to achieving their goals of improving productivity, visibility, and...

What’s New in InsightVM and Nexpose: Q2 2023 in Review

The past few weeks have been extraordinary for the global threat landscape with zero-day vulnerabilities like MOVEit CVE-2023-34362 and Barracuda’s Email Security Gateway ESG CVE-2023-2868. Rapid7’s security research team was one of the first to detect exploitation of Progress Software’s MOVEit...

Rapid7 Solutions for Partners

Central to our mission at Rapid7 is building long-term relationships with partners who deliver valuable security solutions to customers. As customers increasingly seek managed services to meet their security needs, we've eagerly expanded our partner ecosystem to support a rapidly growing body of...

The Japanese Threat Landscape: A Report on Cyber Threats in the Third Largest Economy on Earth

The Japanese economy is massive, global, and varied. It is also a major target for cyber threat actors. As a hub for automotive, manufacturing, technology, and financial services, Japanese companies and organizations face significant cyber risk. There is nonetheless relatively little...

Standardizing SaaS Data to Drive Greater Cloud Security Efficacy

The way we do business has fundamentally changed, and as a result, so must security. Whether it’s legacy modernization initiatives, process improvements, or bridging the gap between physical and digital—most organizational strategies and initiatives involve embracing the cloud. However, investing...

Uncover and Remediate Toxic Combinations with Attack Path Analysis

Particularly at enterprise scale, it’s not uncommon to have hundreds of thousands of resources running across your cloud environments at any given time. Of course, these resources aren’t running independently. In modern environments, these resources are all interconnected and in many cases...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

I like to MOVEit, MOVEit, We like to MOVEit! Party hard just like it's Mardi Gras! bwatters-r7 delivered the dance moves this week with a masterful performance. The windows/http/moveitcve202334362 module is available for all your party needs, taking advantage of CVE-2023-34362, this module gets...

Multiple Vulnerabilities in Fortra Globalscape EFT Administration Server [FIXED]

!Multiple Vulnerabilities in Fortra Globalscape EFT Administration Server \FIXED\https://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2023/06/GettyImages-1345443906.jpg Earlier this year, Rapid7 researchers undertook a project to analyze managed file transfer applications, due to the number of recent...

Cyber Asset Attack Surface Management 101

Understanding CAASM This article was written by Ethan Smart, Co-Founder and Chief Solution Architect, appNovi a Rapid7 integration partner. It's essential for security and IT teams to have a comprehensive view and control of their cyber assets. This is why Cyber Asset Attack Surface Management...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

Metasploit T-Shirt Design Contest In honor of Metasploit's 20th anniversary, Rapid7 is launching special edition t-shirts - and we're inviting members of our community to have a hand in its creation. The contest winner will have their design featured on the shirts, which will then be available to...

CVE-2023-34362: MOVEit Vulnerability Timeline of Events

The following article was written by Drew Burton and Cynthia Wyre. Rapid7 continues to track the impact of CVE-2023-34362, a critical zero-day vulnerability in Progress Software’s MOVEit Transfer solution. CVE-2023-34362 allows for SQL injection, which can result in unauthorized access to sensiti...

Patch Tuesday - June 2023

It’s June, and it’s Patch Tuesday. The volume of fixes this month is typical compared with recent history: 94 in total including Edge-on-Chromium. For the first time in a while, Microsoft isn’t offering patches for any zero-day vulnerabilities, but we do get fixes for four critical Remote Code...

CVE-2023-27997: Critical Fortinet Fortigate Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

On June 9, 2023, Fortinet silently patched a purported critical remote code execution RCE vulnerability in Fortigate SSL VPN firewalls. According to Lexfo Security’s Charles Fol, who discovered the vulnerability, the flaw is heap-based and reachable pre-authentication. According to reports,...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

MOVEit It has been a busy few weeks in the security space; the MOVEit vulnerability filling our news feeds with dancing lemurs and a Barracuda vulnerability that has us all wondering how many shredders out there can handle a 1U appliance. Despite those very worthwhile distractions, Metasploit has...

OWASP TOP 10 API Security Risks: 2023!

The OWASP Top 10 API Security Risks 2023 has arrived! OWASP's API Top 10 is always a highly anticipated release and can be a key component of API security preparedness for the year. As we discussed in API Security Best Practices for a Changing Attack Surface, API usage continues to skyrocket. As ...

Detect and Prioritize Identity-Related Cloud Risk with InsightCloudSec

In modern cloud environments, roles and permissions are assigned not just to human users, but to machines, resources and services, as well. The massive scale of cloud environments leads to teams potentially managing millions of distinct identities. As a result, security teams often struggle to...

CVE-2023-2868: Total Compromise of Physical Barracuda ESG Appliances

Rapid7 incident response teams are investigating exploitation of physical Barracuda Networks Email Security Gateway ESG appliances dating back to at least November 2022. As of June 6, 2023, as part of an ongoing product incident response, Barracuda is urging ESG customers to immediately...

Velociraptor 0.6.9 Release: Digging Even Deeper with SMB Support, Azure Storage and Lockdown Server Mode

Carlos Canto contributed to this article. Rapid7 is very excited to announce version 0.6.9 of Velociraptor is now LIVE and available for download. Much of what went into this release was about expanding capabilities and improving workflows. We’ll now explore some of the interesting new features i...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

Cloud Fun With EC2 New ground was broken today with the addition of two PRs from community contributor sempervictus, also known as RageLtMan, who added the ability for Metasploit to establish sessions to EC2 instances using Amazon's SSM interface, which provides a public API to execute commands o...

This is Ceti Alpha Five!

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan demonstrating the very best and worst of cybersecurity in the 23rd Century For those new to the Sci-Fi game, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is a 1982 science fiction film based on the 1966-69 television series Star Trek. In the film, Admiral James T. Kirk and the...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

AD CS certificate templates Our very own Spencer McIntyre has developed a new module that allows for creating, reading, updating and deleting certificate template objects from Active Directory. ESC4 Exploitation These changes notably enables the exploitation of the technique identified as ESC4...

Rapid7 Observed Exploitation of Critical MOVEit Transfer Vulnerability

Note: As of June 2, 2023, CVE-2023-34362 has been assigned to this vulnerability. On Friday, June 9, Progress Software released patches for a second vulnerability, CVE-2023-35036. On Thursday, June 15, a third vulnerability was announced and later assigned CVE-2023-35708. Progress has updates her...

Rapid7 Sales Director Devin Poulter On Building a Career as an Account Executive

Devin Poulter is a Sales Director with over 20 years of experience in the tech industry. Recently, we asked him a few questions to learn more about how he built his career, what it’s like to lead a team at Rapid7, and more. You’ve been in software sales for most of your career, what can you tell ...

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...

Widespread Exploitation of Zyxel Network Devices

Rapid7 is tracking reports of ongoing exploitation of CVE-2023-28771, a critical unauthenticated command injection vulnerability affecting multiple Zyxel networking devices. The vulnerability is present in the default configuration of vulnerable devices and is exploitable in the Wide Area Network...

Fetch Payloads: A Shorter Path from Command Injection to Metasploit Session

Over the last year, two-thirds of the exploit modules added to Metasploit Framework have targeted command injection vulnerabilities CWE-94: Improper Control of Generation of Code. In the process of helping new and existing open-source contributors learn how to use Metasploit’s command stager...

Healthcare Orgs: Do You Need an Outsourced SOC?

Gartner predicts that 50% of organizations will partner with an external MDR Managed Detection and Response service by 2025 for around-the-clock monitoring. What determines where healthcare organizations fall on that 50/50 split over using an outsourced SOC? It usually comes down to their ability...

VeloCON 2023: Submissions Wanted!

Rapid7 is thrilled to announce that the 2nd annual VeloCON virtual summit will be held this September date TBD, with times oriented to the continental USA time zones. Once again, the conference will be online and completely free! VeloCON is a one-day event focused on the Velociraptor community...

Casting a Light on Shadow IT in Cloud Environments

What is Shadow IT? The term “Shadow IT” refers to the use of systems, devices, software, applications, and services without explicit IT approval. This typically occurs when employees adopt consumer products to increase productivity or just make their lives easier. This type of Shadow IT can be...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

Fetch Based Payloads: Making the Path from Command Injection to Metasploit Session Shorter This week we’re releasing Metasploit fetch payloads. Fetch payloads are command-based payloads that leverage network-enabled applications on remote hosts and different protocol servers to serve, download, a...

Introducing: ‘Saved Filters’ in InsightCloudSec

Last year, when we launched Layered Context in InsightCloudSec, we knew we had something great on our hands. Not just because we provided a single view for cloud security practitioners to see their full cloud risk posture though, if we do say so ourselves, that’s pretty sweet. No, we knew we had...

Rapid7 Recognized as a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave™ for MDR, Q2 2023

Rapid7 recognized amongst the top MDR providers in the industry. As security teams try to do more with less, addressing the sprawling attack surface and monitoring the escalating threat and risk landscape, it inherently leaves them at a disadvantage. Rapid7 Managed Threat Complete empowers...

CVE-2023-27350: Ongoing Exploitation of PaperCut Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE-2023-27350 is an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability in PaperCut MF/NG print management software that allows attackers to bypass authentication and execute arbitrary code as SYSTEM on vulnerable targets. A patch is available for this vulnerability and should be applied on an...

Metasploit Wrap-up

Chaining for the win 1: Pentaho Business Server This week, our very own jheysel-r7 added an exploit module that leverages two vulnerabilities in Hitachi Vantara Pentaho Business Analytics Server prior to versions 9.4.0.1 and 9.3.0.2, including 8.3.x. The module chains an authentication bypass...

[The Lost Bots] S03E03. The Rise of The Machines

!\The Lost Bots\ S03E03. The Rise of The Machineshttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2023/05/CWfxAaUmZV248bvr4yKaK2.jpg Artificial Intelligence AI is both a profound topic and now, a practical one too: cybersecurity marketers in particular are loving the letters “A” an “I.” But exactly where a...

The Velociraptor 2023 Annual Community Survey

By Dr. Mike Cohen & Carlos Canto Velociraptor is an open-source project led and shaped by the community. Over the years, Velociraptor has become a real force in the field of DFIR, making it an obvious choice for many operational situations. Rapid7 is committed to continue making Velociraptor the...

Patch Tuesday - May 2023

A less crowded Patch Tuesday for May 2023: Microsoft is offering fixes for just 49 vulnerabilities this month. There are no fixes this month for printer drivers, DNS, or .NET, three components which have featured heavily in recent months. Three zero-day vulnerabilities are patched, alongside a...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

Throw another log file on the fire Our own Stephen Fewer authored a module targeting CVE-2023-26360 affecting ColdFusion 2021 Update 5 and earlier as well as ColdFusion 2018 Update 15 and earlier. The vulnerability allows multiple paths to code execution, but our module works by leveraging a...