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Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up
Bofloader - Windows Meterpreter Gets Beacon Object File Loader Support This week brings a new and frequently requested feature to the Windows Meterpreter, the Beacon Object File loader. This new extension, bofloader, allows for users to execute Beacon Object Files as written for either Cobalt...
CVE-2022-40684: Remote Authentication Bypass Vulnerability in Fortinet Firewalls, Web Proxies
Emergent threats evolve quickly, and as we learn more about this vulnerability, this blog post will evolve, too. On October 3, 2022, Fortinet released a software update that indicates then-current versions of their FortiOS firewall and FortiProxy web proxy software are vulnerable to CVE-2022-4068...
Exploitation of Unpatched Zero-Day Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Zimbra Collaboration Suite (CVE-2022-41352)
Note: Zimbra release 9.0.0 P27 addressed this vulnerability on October 10, 2022. CVE-2022-41352 is an unpatched remote code execution vulnerability in Zimbra Collaboration Suite discovered in the wild due to active exploitation. The vulnerability is due to the method cpio in which Zimbra’s...
What's New in InsightIDR: Q3 2022 in Review
This Q3 2022 recap post takes a look at some of the latest investments we've made to InsightIDR to drive detection and response forward for your organization. 360-degree XDR and attack surface coverage with Rapid7 The Rapid7 XDR suite — flagship InsightIDR, alongside InsightConnect SOAR, and Thre...
Velociraptor Version 0.6.6: Multi-Tenant Mode and More Let You Dig Deeper at Scale Like Never Before
Rapid7 is excited to announce the release of version 0.6.6 of Velociraptor – an advanced, open-source digital forensics and incident response DFIR tool that enhances visibility into your organization’s endpoints. After several months of development and testing, we are excited to share its powerfu...
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up
Veritas Backup Exec Agent RCE This module kindly provided by c0rs targets the Veritas Backup Exec Agent in order to gain RCE as the system/root user. The exploit itself is actually a chain of 3 separate CVEs CVE-2021-27876, CVE-2021-27877 and CVE-2021-27878 which only makes it more impressive...
CVE-2022-41040 and CVE-2022-41082: Unpatched Zero-Day Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server
On Thursday, September 29, a Vietnamese security firm called GTSC published information and IOCs on what they claimed was a pair of unpatched Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerabilities being used in attacks on their customers’ environments dating back to early August 2022. The impact of...
[The Lost Bots] S02E04: Cyber's Most Dangerous Game — Threat Hunting
!\The Lost Bots\ S02E04: Cyber's Most Dangerous Game — Threat Huntinghttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2022/09/The-Lost-Bots-logo-large.png Welcome back to The Lost Bots! In this episode, we dive into one of our favorite topics: threat hunting. It's a subject we've talked about before, but...
The Empty SOC Shop: Where Has All the Talent Gone?
Anyone involved in hiring security analysts in the last few years is likely painfully aware of the cybersecurity skills shortage – but the talent hasn’t “gone anywhere” so much as it’s been bouncing around all over the place, looking for the highest bidder and most impactful work environment...
[Security Nation] Taki Uchiyama of Panasonic on Product Security and Incident Response
!\Security Nation\ Taki Uchiyama of Panasonic on Product Security and Incident Responsehttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2022/09/securitynationlogo-1.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, Jen and Tod chat with Taki Uchiyama about his work on Panasonic’s Product Security Incident Response...
What’s New in InsightVM and Nexpose: Q3 2022 in Review
Another quarter comes to a close! While we definitely had our share of summer fun, our team continued to invest in the product, releasing features and updates like recurring coverage for enterprise technologies, performance enhancements, and more. Let’s take a look at some of the key releases in...
How to Deploy a SIEM That Actually Works
I deployed my SIEM in days, not months – here’s how you can too As an IT administrator at a highly digitized manufacturing company, I spent many sleepless nights with no visibility into the activity and security of our environment before deploying a security information and event management SIEM...
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up
Have you built out that awesome media room? If your guilty pleasures include using a mobile device to make your home entertainment system WOW your guests, you might be using Unified Remote. I hope you are extra cautious about what devices you let on that WiFi network. A prolific community member...
One Year After IntSights Acquisition, Threat Intel’s Value Is Clear
Rapid7 Strengthens Market Position With 360-Degree XDR and Best-in-Class Threat Intelligence Offerings Time flies… and provides opportunities to establish proof points. After recently passing the one-year milestone of Rapid7’s acquisition of IntSights, the added value threat intelligence brings t...
Prioritizing XDR in 2023: Stronger Detection and Response With Less Complexity
As we get closer to closing out 2022, the talk in the market continues to swirl around extended detection and response XDR solutions. What are they? What are the benefits? Should my team adopt XDR, and if yes, how do we evaluate vendors to determine the best approach? While there continue to be...
How to Accelerate Your SOAR Program to Full Speed in Less Than a Year
Every new technology comes with a learning curve specific to your organization. First you learn the basics, then you accelerate. Rapid7’s offerings are no different. As a Senior Information Security Engineer at Brooks, I have firsthand experience with this process. I oversaw the implementation of...
CVE-2022-36804: Easily Exploitable Vulnerability in Atlassian Bitbucket Server and Data Center
On August 24, 2022, Atlassian published an advisory for Bitbucket Server and Data Center alerting users to CVE-2022-36804. The advisory reveals a command injection vulnerability in multiple API endpoints, which allows an attacker with access to a public repository or with read permissions to a...
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up
BYOS: Bring your own stager We try hard to make sure we have a great choice of fully-functional payloads to choose from, but sometimes you might want to “branch” out on your own, and if that’s the case we’ve got you covered. In an attempt to make Metasploit play well with others, we’ve introduced...
[Security Nation] Chris Levendis and Lisa Olson on Cloud CVEs
!\Security Nation\ Chris Levendis and Lisa Olson on Cloud CVEshttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2022/09/securitynationlogo.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, Jen and Tod chat with Chris Levendis of MITRE and Lisa Olson of Microsoft about assigning CVE IDs for vulnerabilities affecting...
The 2022 SANS Top New Attacks and Threats Report Is In, and It's Required Reading
The latest Top New Attacks and Threat Report from the cybersecurity experts at SANS is here — and the findings around cyberthreats, attacks, and best practices to defend against them are as critical for security teams as they've ever been. If you're unfamiliar with the SysAdmin, Audit, Network, a...
Patch Tuesday - September 2022
This month’s Patch Tuesday is on the lighter side, with 79 CVEs being fixed by Microsoft including 16 CVEs affecting Chromium, used by their Edge browser, that were already available. One zero-day was announced: CVE-2022-37969 is an elevation of privilege vulnerability affecting the Log File Syst...
How a Principal Engineer Made His Journey to Cloud Security With Rapid7
The first programming language I learned in my childhood was Pascal. I was 12 years old at the time, and I quickly developed a passion for technology. From a young age, I always knew I wanted to learn engineering and computer science. I wanted to solve big design and architecture problems while...
Grey Time: The Hidden Cost of Incident Response
The time cost of incident response for security teams may be greater – and more complex – than we’ve been assuming. To see that in action, let’s look at a hypothetical scenario that should feel familiar to most cybersecurity analysts. An everyday story A security engineer, Casey, is tuning a SIEM...
InsightVM: Best Practices to Improve Your Console
Over the years, our recommendations and best practices for the InsightVM console have changed with the improvements and updates we’ve made to the system. Here are some of the most common improvements to help you get the most out of your InsightVM console in 2022. Ensure everything is up to date T...
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up
Authenticated command injection vulnerability of Cisco ASA-X with FirePOWER Services: jbaines-r7 added a new module that exploits an authenticated command injection vulnerability CVE-2022-20828 of Cisco ASA-X with FirePOWER Services. This vulnerability affects all Cisco ASA appliances that suppor...
Integrating Cloud Security With DevOps and CI/CD Tools
This is the latest post in our blog series on shifting left in cloud security. In our last post, we kicked off the series with a high-level overview about Rapid7’s approach to shifting cloud security into the application development lifecycle. For this post, we’ll dive into a key aspect of our...
Baxter SIGMA Spectrum Infusion Pumps: Multiple Vulnerabilities (FIXED)
Rapid7, Inc. Rapid7 discovered vulnerabilities in two TCP/IP-enabled medical devices produced by Baxter Healthcare. The affected products are: SIGMA Spectrum Infusion Pump Firmware Version 8.00.01 SIGMA Wi-Fi Battery Firmware Versions 16, 17, 20 D29 Rapid7 initially reported these issues to Baxte...
VeloCON 2022: Digging Deeper Together!
September 15, 2022 | Live at 9 am EDT | Virtual and Free Join the open-source digital forensics and incident response DFIR community for a day-long, virtual summit as we DIG DEEPER TOGETHER! Have you ever wanted to share your passion and interest in Velociraptor with the rest of the community?...
3 Ways to Improve Data Protection in the Cloud
Cloud complexity is now a well-documented and widely felt phenomenon across technology teams — IT, development, and security alike. Multi-cloud architectures have become the norm, with 89% of organizations embracing a strategy that involves multiple cloud vendors. Not only are companies managing...
5 Things Rapid7 Looks for in a BDR, and How We Spot Them
Every successful organization has a great salesforce. At Rapid7, the Business Development Representative BDR Program is a huge source of talent for our sales organization. Some of our most successful salespeople come from the program. So, what is it? The BDR Program at Rapid7 is an entry-level...
5 Steps for Dealing With Unknown Environments in InsightVM
Trying to deal with a large network can be difficult. All too often, engineers and admins don't know the full scope of their environment and have trouble defining the actual subnets and the systems that exist on those subnets. They know of a couple /24 subnets here or there, but it's very possibl...
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up
ICPR Certificate Management This week Metasploit has a new ICPR Certificate Management module from Oliver Lyak and our very own Spencer McIntyre, which can be utilized for issuing certificates via Active Directory Certificate Services. It has the capability to issue certificates which is useful i...
Architecting for Extortion: Acting on the IST’s Blueprint for Ransomware Defense
Last month, the Institute for Security and Technology’s IST Ransomware Task Force RTF launched the Blueprint for Ransomware Defense, a mitigation, response, and recovery plan for small- and medium-sized enterprises. This action plan is a cross-industry document that targets business leaders and...
25 Years of Nmap: Happy Scan-iversary!
I didn't know it then, but on September 1, 1997, my life changed. That was the day that Fyodor's Nmap was first released to the world, courtesy of the venerable Phrack magazine. By the way, check out our recent podcast with Fyodor himself if you haven’t yet. At the time, I had just started my...
[Security Nation] Gordon “Fyodor” Lyon on Nmap, the Open-Source Security Scanner
!\Security Nation\ Gordon “Fyodor” Lyon on Nmap, the Open-Source Security Scannerhttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2022/08/securitynationlogo-2.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, Jen and Tod chat with Gordon “Fyodor” Lyon, author of the widely used open-source Nmap Security Scanner. On...
Rapid7 Makes Security Compliance Complexity a Thing of the Past With InsightIDR
As a unified SIEM and XDR solution, InsightIDR gives organizations the tools they need to drive an elevated and efficient compliance program. Cybersecurity standards and compliance are mission-critical for every organization, regardless of size. Apart from the direct losses resulting from a data...
Metasploit Wrap-Up
Zimbra Auth Bypass to Shell Ron Bowes added an exploit module that targets multiple versions of Zimbra Collaboration Suite. The module leverages an authentication bypass CVE-2022-37042 and a directory traversal vulnerability CVE-2022-27925 to gain code execution as the zimbra user. The auth bypas...
Incident Reporting Regulations Summary and Chart
A growing number of regulations require organizations to report significant cybersecurity incidents. We've created a chart that summarizes 11 proposed and current cyber incident reporting regulations and breaks down their common elements, such as who must report, what cyber incidents must be...
[The Lost Bots] S02E03: Browser-in-Browser Attacks — Don't Get (Cat)-Phished
!\The Lost Bots\ S02E03: Browser-in-Browser Attacks — Don't Get \Cat-Phishedhttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2022/08/The-Lost-Bots-logo-large.png Welcome back to The Lost Bots! In our latest episode, we're talking about phishing attacks — but not your standard run-of-the-mill version...
Cybersecurity Analysts: Job Stress Is Bad, but Boredom Is Kryptonite
Years ago, “airline pilot” used to be a high-stress profession. Imagine being in personal control of equipment worth millions hurtling through the sky on an irregular schedule with the lives of all the passengers in your hands. But today on any given flight, autopilot is engaged almost 90% of the...
Avoiding Smash and Grab Under the SEC’s Proposed Cyber Rule
The SEC recently proposed a regulation to require all public companies to report cybersecurity incidents within four days of determining that the incident is material. While Rapid7 generally supports the proposed rule, we are concerned that the rule requires companies to publicly disclose a cyber...
Network Access for Sale: Protect Your Organization Against This Growing Threat
Vulnerable network access points are a potential gold mine for threat actors who, once inside, can exploit them persistently. Many cybercriminals are not only interested in obtaining personal information but also seek corporate information that could be sold to the highest bidder. Infiltrating...
Metasploit Wrap-Up
Advantech iView NetworkServlet Command Injection This week Shelby Pace has developed a new exploit module for CVE-2022-2143. This module uses an unauthenticated command injection vulnerability to gain remote code execution against vulnerable versions of Advantech iView software below 5.7.04.6469...
Pushing Open-Source Security Forward: Insights From Black Hat 2022
Open-source security has been a hot topic in recent years, and it's proven to be something of a double-edged sword. On the one hand, there's an understanding of the potential that open-source tools hold for democratizing security, making industry best practices accessible to more organizations an...
360-Degree XDR and Attack Surface Coverage With Rapid7
Today’s already resource-constrained security teams are tasked with protecting more as environments sprawl and alerts pile up, while attackers continue to get stealthier and add to their arsenal. To be successful against bad actors, security teams need to be proactive against evolving attacks in...
[Security Nation] Jen and Tod on Hacker Summer Camp 2022
!\Security Nation\ Jen and Tod on Hacker Summer Camp 2022https://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2022/08/securitynationlogo-1.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, Tod and Jen chat about their experience at this year’s Hacker Summer Camp, the multi-event lineup of cybersecurity conferences in La...
Leading the Way in Tampa
If you've been to the Tampa Bay area in recent years, you've probably noticed the significant tech industry expansion taking place in the Channel District. It's an exciting time to be a part of the scene, and Rapid7 is smack in the middle. Being active in the Tampa Bay Chamber of Commerce is...
Active Exploitation of Multiple Vulnerabilities in Zimbra Collaboration Suite
Over the past few weeks, five different vulnerabilities affecting Zimbra Collaboration Suite have come to our attention, one of which is unpatched, and four of which are being actively and widely exploited in the wild by well-organized threat actors. We urge organizations who use Zimbra to patch ...
Are Your Apps Exposed? Know Faster With Application Discovery in InsightAppSec
“Yes, I know what applications we have publicly exposed.” How many times have you said that with confidence? I bet not too many. With the rapid pace of development that engineering teams can work at, it is becoming increasingly difficult to know what apps you have exposed to the internet, adding...
[VIDEO] An Inside Look at Black Hat 2022 From the Rapid7 Team
!\VIDEO\ An Inside Look at Black Hat 2022 From the Rapid7 Teamhttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2022/08/black-hat-vlog.jpg Of all the cybersecurity conferences that fill up our summertime schedules, Hacker Summer Camp — the weeklong series of security events in Las Vegas that includes BSides...