Year in Review: Rapid7 Cybersecurity Research

Welcome to 2023, a year that sounds so futuristic it is hard to believe it is real. But real it is, and make no mistake, threat actors are still out there, working hard to get into networks the world over. So, at the start of the new year, I am reminded of two particular phrases: Those who do not...

Rapid7 Announces Global Days Off to Support Employees in 2023

On January 3rd, it was a little bit quieter than usual here at Rapid7. That's because our offices were closed for our first of five Global Days Off for 2023. Global Days Off are designed to encourage teams around the world to unplug and rest, enabling them to bring their best selves back to work...

2022 Annual Metasploit Wrap-Up

It's been another gangbusters year for Metasploit, and the holidays are a time to give thanks to all the people that help make our load a little bit lighter. So, while this end-of-year wrap-up is a highlight reel of the headline features and extensions that landed in Metasploit-land in 2022, we...

Understanding the Ecosystem of Smart Cities for the Purpose of Security Testing

Is there a defined ecosystem, similar to what we encountered with the Internet of Things IoT, that can be charted out as it relates to smart city technology and its security implications? While evaluating IoT I struggled with defining what IoT is. I found that there were varying definitions out...

Refreshing Rapid7's Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure Policy

As 2023 comes hurtling towards us like some kind of maniacal arctic train full of disturbingly realistic AI-generated people, I wanted to take a moment on the blog here to announce that we here at Rapid7, Inc. have refreshed our coordinated vulnerability disclosure CVD policy and philosophy. If y...

The 2022 Naughty and Nice List

It's the holiday season when children all over the world cross their fingers in the hope that they don't end up on a certain red-clad big man's naughty list. Turns out, we at Rapid7 have a similar tradition, only we're the ones making the list and there's a whole lotta naughty going on not like...

Hallmark Channel: Securing the Season

How Crown Media protects its crown jewel It’s that time of year again…chestnuts roasting on an open-fire, kids making wish-lists, and company holiday parties where you can showcase your most outlandish ugly sweater. It’s also the time of year we all get a little bit less cynical and take in a...

Cloud Security and Compliance Best Practices: Highlights From The CSA Cloud Controls Matrix

In a recent blog post, we highlighted the release of an InsightCloudSec compliance pack, that helps organizations establish and adhere to AWS Foundational Security Best Practices. While that’s a great pack for those who have standardized on AWS and are looking for a trusted set of controls to...

CVE-2022-41080, CVE-2022-41082: Rapid7 Observed Exploitation of `OWASSRF` in Exchange for RCE

Emergent threats evolve quickly, and as we learn more about this vulnerability, this blog post will evolve, too. Beginning December 20, 2022, Rapid7 has responded to an increase in the number of Microsoft Exchange server compromises. Further investigation aligned these attacks to what CrowdStrike...

Never Mind the Ears, Here's Security Nation

It's another year down and another season down for Security Nation. With the close of our fifth season, I wanted to take a minute here to reflect on who we spoke with and what we talked about. The show titles focus as you would expect on the individual interview subjects, but there's a bunch of...

Cengage LTI Session Management Leakage

Prior to December 10, 2022, Cengage, an education technology provider in use in many higher education environments primarily in the United States, had two issues in the way it handled session management over its Learning Tools Integration LTI pipeline. The first issue involves leaving unexpectedl...

ICYMI: 10 Cybersecurity Acronyms You Should Know in 2023

Cybersecurity is acronym-heavy to say the least. If you’re reading this, you already know. From CVE to FTP, we in IT love our abbreviations, FR FR. Truthfully though, it can be a bit much, and even the nerdiest among us miss a few. So, In Case You Missed It, here are 10 cybersecurity acronyms you...

[The Lost Bots] S02E06: Play “Experts or Scuttlebutt?” With Us

!\The Lost Bots\ S02E06: Play “Experts or Scuttlebutt?” With Ushttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2022/12/The-Lost-Bots-logo-large.png As the year winds down, Jeffrey Gardner, Detection and Response Practice Advisor and Stephen Davis, Lead D&R Sales Technical Advisor, collected predictions th...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

A sack full of cheer from the Hacking Elves of Metasploit It is clear that the Metasploit elves have been busy this season: Five new modules, six new enhancements, nine new bug fixes, and a partridge in a pear tree are headed out this week! Partridge nor pear tree included. In this sack of goodie...

Spoiler Alert: Your Favorite Content Might Not Be Secure

Securing intellectual property in the age of consolidation Rapid7, of course, is not in the entertainment industry. However, we have worked with some clients out there in that golden land of dreams and enchantment—also known as Hollywood. Case in point: the company formerly known as Discovery, In...

Cloud Audit: Compliance + Automation

Setting your own standard Today’s regulatory environment is incredibly fractured and extensive. Depending on the industry—and the part of the world your business and/or security organization resides in—you may be subject to several regulatory compliance standards. Adding to the complexity, there ...

CVE-2022-27518: Critical Fix Released for Exploited Citrix ADC, Gateway Vulnerability

Emergent threats evolve quickly, and as we learn more about this vulnerability, this blog post will evolve, too. On Tuesday, December 13, 2022, Citrix published Citrix ADC and Citrix Gateway Security Bulletin for CVE-2022-27518 announcing fixes for a critical unauthenticated remote code execution...

Patch Tuesday - December 2022

As far as Patch Tuesdays go, defenders have a relatively light month to close out the year with only 48 CVEs being published by Microsoft today. This does not include the 24 previously disclosed vulnerabilities affecting their Chromium-based Edge browser. There are two zero-days in the mix today...

Tis the Season to Be Wary: Three Holiday Shopping Scams To Watch For

Chestnuts roasting on an open fire, scammers nipping at your bank account… that might not be the carol you were expecting, but unfortunately it’s the frosty truth. Most everyone has tons of shopping to do in preparation for holidays, whether they’re buying gifts, decorations, or tickets to visit...

CVE-2022-42475: Critical Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in FortiOS; Exploitation Reported

Emergent threats evolve quickly, and as we learn more about this vulnerability, this blog post will evolve, too. On December 12, 2022, FortiGuard Labs published advisory FG-IR-22-398 regarding a critical CVSSv3 9.3 “heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability CWE-122 in FortiOS SSL-VPN which may all...

Rapid7 Recognized as a Top Place to Work for 11th Consecutive Year

On November 30th, 2022, Rapid7 was again recognized by The Boston Globe as a Top Place to Work in Massachusetts. This marks the 11th consecutive year Rapid7 has made the list, this time coming in at 3 in the large company category. Top Places to Work rankings are based on a Globe survey that...

Metasploit Wrap-Up

Login brute-force utility Jan Rude added a new module that gives users the ability to brute-force login for Linux Syncovery. This expands Framework's capability to scan logins to Syncovery, a popular web GUI for backups. WordPress extension SQL injection module Cydave, destr4ct, and jheysel-r7...

AWS Graviton Processor Support on Insight Agent

By Marco Botros Marco is a Technical Product Manager for Platform at Rapid7. We are pleased to announce that the Insight Agent now supports the AWS Graviton processor. The Insight Agent supports various operating systems using the AWS Graviton processor, including Amazon Linux, Redhat, and Ubuntu...

2023 Cybersecurity Industry Predictions

With 2022 rapidly coming to a close, this is the time of year where it makes sense to take a step back and look at the year in cybersecurity, and make a few critical predictions for what the industry could face in the year ahead. In order to give the security community some insight into where we’...

About Anomalous Data Transfer detection in InsightIDR

By Shivangi Pandey Shivangi is a Senior Product Manager for D&R at Rapid7. Data exfiltration is an unauthorized movement or transfer of data occurring on an organization’s network. This can occur when a malicious actor gains access to a corporation’s network with the intention of stealing or...

CVE-2022-4261: Rapid7 Nexpose Update Validation Issue (FIXED)

On November 14, 2022, Rapid7's product engineering team discovered that the mechanism in Nexpose and InsightVM used to validate the source of an update file was unreliable. This failure, which involved the internal cryptographic validation of received updates, was designated as CVE-2022-4261, and...

ISO 27001 Certification: What it is and why it matters

Did you know that Rapid7 information security management system ISMS is ISO 27001 certified? This certification validates that our security strategy and processes meet very high standards. It underscores our commitment to corporate and customer data security. What is ISO 27001? ISO 27001 is an...

Get your head in the cloud(s)

Many organizations are in the midst of adopting the cloud faster than ever before; it’s arguably mission critical for their success and longevity. Just look at initiatives like digital transformation or even the digital twin which aims to bridge the gap between the physical and the digital by...

Leaked Android Platform Certificates Create Risks for Users

On November 30, 2022, a Google apvi report from Łukasz Siewierski initially filed on November 11, 2022 was made public. The report contained 10 different platform certificates and malware sample SHA256 sums where the malware sample had been signed by a platform certificate — the application signi...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

ProxyNotShell This week's Metasploit release includes an exploit module for CVE-2022-41082, AKA ProxyNotShell by DA-0x43-Dx4-DA-Hx2-Tx2-TP-S-Q, Orange Tsai, Piotr Bazydło, Rich Warren, Soroush Dalili, and our very own Spencer McIntyre. The vulnerability CVE-2022-41082, AKA ProxyNotShell is a...

Velociraptor Version 0.6.7: Better Offline Collection, Encryption, and an Improved NTFS Parser Dig Deeper Than Ever

By Mike Cohen and Carlos Canto Rapid7 is excited to announce the release of version 0.6.7 of Velociraptor – an advanced, open-source digital forensics and incident response DFIR tool that enhances visibility into your organization’s endpoints. This release has been in development and testing for...

Powerlifting in the Cybersecurity Skills Gap

All the reasons Is there too much to do with too little talent? If your SOC hasn’t been running smoothly in a while, there’s likely multiple reasons why. As a popular slang phrase goes these days, it’s because of “all the reasons.” Budget, talent churn, addressing alerts all over the place; you...

Can Cloud Security Be Easier Than Complex?

A bigger piece of the meal For those in the United States and certain parts of the world, it’s time for end-of-year holidays. That means lots and lots of big meals to celebrate these special occasions. Each dish created becomes part of that larger meal. Another important event that occurs around...

Rapid7 Integration For AWS Verified Access

Today at re:invent, Amazon Web Services AWS unveiled its new AWS Verified Access service, and we are thrilled to announce that InsightIDR — Rapid7’s next-gen SIEM and XDR — will support log ingestion from this new service when it is made generally available. What Is AWS Verified Access? AWS...

InsightIDR Launches Integration With New AWS Security Data Lake Service

It has been an action-packed day at AWS re:Invent. For security professionals, one of the most exciting announcements has to be the launch of Amazon Security Lake. We see a lot of potential for this new service, which is why Rapid7 is proud to announce the immediate availability of an integration...

Unifying Threat Findings to Elevate Your Runtime Cloud Security

The widespread growth in cloud adoption in recent years has given businesses across all industries the ability to transform and scale in ways never before possible. However, the speed of those changes, combined with the drastically increased volume and complexity of resources in cloud environment...

Reducing Risk In The Cloud with Agentless Vulnerability Management

In order to gain visibility into vulnerabilities in their public cloud environments, many organizations still rely on agent or network-based scanning technology that was initially built for traditional infrastructure and endpoints. These methods often struggle to keep up with the speed of change...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

F5 Big-IP This week’s Metasploit release contains 2 new modules released as part of the Rapid7 F5 BIG-IP and iControl REST Vulnerabilities research article. These discoveries were made by our very own Ron Bowes, who developed an exploit module for authenticated RCE against F5 devices running in...

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...

Search Made Easy: InsightIDR’s Secret Weapon for Efficiency and Efficacy

By Matt Heidet Matt is a Senior Information Security Engineer at a Regional Financial Institution. He is a Customer and Guest Blogger for Rapid7 Have you ever groaned when divvying up incidents from a pen-test amongst an overworked team? Or maybe you’ve struggled to present how you adhere to...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

Pre-authenticated Remote Code Execution in VMware NSX Manager using XStream CVE-2021-39144 There’s nothing quite like a pre-authenticated remote code execution vulnerability in a piece of enterprise software. This week, community contributor h00die-gr3y added a module that targets VMware NSX...

Better Cloud Security Shouldn’t Require Bigger Budgets

Stretching what you’re given How can you do more when you’re constantly being given the same or less? When security budgets don’t match the pace of the cloud operations they’re tasked with securing, the only thing to do is become an expert in the stretch. It’s hard, and you might currently be und...

Rapid7 and HashiCorp Partner to Secure Terraform-based Cloud Infrastructure Deployments

Welcome to the latest installment in our cloud security “shift-left” blog series. In our last post, we covered the importance of integrating cloud infrastructure security assessments into DevOps tools and enabling Infrastructure as Code IaC developers. This time, we’re focusing on Rapid7’s recent...

Rapid7 Takes Home 2 Awards and a Highly Commended Recognition at the 2022 Belfast Telegraph IT Awards

Rapid7 was honored at the Belfast Telegraph's annual IT Awards, Friday, taking home a pair of awards including the coveted “Best Place to Work in IT” in the large company category award, and the “Cyber Security Project of the Year” award, for groundbreaking machine learning research in applicatio...

CVE-2022-41622 and CVE-2022-41800 (FIXED): F5 BIG-IP and iControl REST Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Rapid7 discovered several vulnerabilities and exposures in F5 BIG-IP and BIG-IQ devices running a customized distribution of CentOS detailed in F5's Base Operating Systems support article. The affected products are detailed in the vendor advisories below: CVE-2022-41622: BIG-IP and BIG-IQ are...

How to Develop a SOAR Workflow to Automate a Critical Daily Task

As the senior information security engineer at Brooks, an international running shoe and apparel company, I can appreciate the challenge of launching a security orchestration, automation, and response SOAR tool for the first time as well as investing your time and budget into making a new securit...

CVE-2022-27510: Critical Citrix ADC and Gateway Remote Authentication Bypass Vulnerabilities

On November 8, 2022, Citrix published Citrix Gateway and Citrix ADC Security Bulletin for CVE-2022-27510 CVE-2022-27513 and CVE-2022-27516 announcing fixes for three vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-27510 “Unauthorized access to Gateway user capabilities” CVE-2022-27513 “Remote desktop takeover via...

GraphQL Security: The Next Evolution in API Protection

GraphQL is an open-source data query and manipulation language that can be used to build application program interfaces APIs. Since its initial inception by Facebook in 2012 and subsequent release in 2015, GraphQL has grown steadily in popularity. Some estimate that by 2025, more than 50% of...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

ADCS - ESC Vulnerable certificate template finder Our very own Grant Willcox has developed a new module which allows users to query a LDAP server for vulnerable Active Directory Certificate Services AD CS certificate templates. The module will print the detected certificate details, and the attac...

Rapid7’s Impact from OpenSSL Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities (CVE-2022-3786 & CVE-2022-3602)

As stated in our OpenSSL Buffer Overflow blog post, the CVE-2022-3786 & CVE-2022-3602 vulnerabilities affecting OpenSSL’s 3.0.x versions both rely on a maliciously crafted email address in a certificate. CVE-2022-3786 can overflow an arbitrary number of bytes on the stack with the “.” character a...