Cybersecurity in the Infrastructure Bill

On August 10, 2021, the U.S. Senate passed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 H.R.3684. The bill comes in at 2,700+ pages, provides for $1.2T in spending, and includes several cybersecurity items. We expect this legislation to become law around late September and do not expect...

CVE-2021-3927[67]: Fortress S03 WiFi Home Security System Vulnerabilities

!CVE-2021-3927\67: Fortress S03 WiFi Home Security System Vulnerabilitieshttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2021/08/fortress-vuln.jpg Rapid7 researcher Arvind Vishwakarma discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the Fortress S03 WiFi Home Security System. These vulnerabilities could result in...

[The Lost Bots] Episode 4: Deception Technology

!\The Lost Bots\ Episode 4: Deception Technologyhttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2021/08/-The-Lost-Bots--Episode-1--External-Threat-Intelligence-1.jpeg Welcome back to The Lost Bots, a vlog series where Rapid7 Detection and Response Practice Advisor Jeffrey Gardner talks all things security...

Metasploit Wrap-Up

LearnPress authenticated SQL injection Metasploit contributor h00die added a new module that exploits CVE-2020-6010, an authenticated SQL injection vulnerability in the WordPress LearnPress plugin. When a user is logged in with contributor privileges or higher, the id parameter can be used to...

The Cybersecurity Skills Gap Is Widening: New Study

The era of COVID-19 has taught us all a few things about supply and demand. From the early days of toilet paper shortages to more recent used-car pricing shocks, the stress tests brought on by a global pandemic have revealed the extremely delicate balance of scarcity and surplus. Another area...

[R]Evolution of the Cyber Threat Intelligence Practice

!\R\Evolution of the Cyber Threat Intelligence Practicehttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2021/08/evolution-threat-intelligence.jpg Co-authored by Yotam Avitan, Deputy Head of Global CSOC at Novartis The cyber threat intelligence CTI space is one of the most rapidly evolving areas in...

Cybercriminals Selling Access to Compromised Networks: 3 Surprising Research Findings

Cybercriminals are innovative, always finding ways to adapt to new circumstances and opportunities. The proof of this can be seen in the rise of a certain variety of activity on the dark web: the sale of access to compromised networks. This type of dark web activity has existed for decades, but i...

[The Lost Bots] Bonus Episode: Velociraptor Contributor Competition

!\The Lost Bots\ Bonus Episode: Velociraptor Contributor Competitionhttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2021/08/-The-Lost-Bots--Episode-1--External-Threat-Intelligence.jpeg Welcome back for a special bonus edition of The Lost Bots, a vlog series where Rapid7 Detection and Response Practice...

Rapid7 MDR Named a Market Leader, Again!

New IDC MarketScape Names Rapid7 a Leader in U.S. Managed Detection and Response MDR It’s a big year to be named a Leader. Time magazine said the pandemic produced “the world’s largest work-from-home experiment.” Suddenly, everyone was accessing everything from everywhere. Control moved outside...

Metasploit Wrap-Up

Anyone enjoy making chains? The community is hard at work building chains to pull sessions out of vulnerable Exchange servers. This week Rapid7's own wvu & Spencer McIntyre added a module that implements the ProxyShell exploit chain originally demonstrated by Orange Tsai. The module also benefite...

Why Joining Rapid7 Was the Best Decision for These Sales Professionals, Even During a Pandemic

As any job seeker knows, a lot of thought goes into accepting a new role at a new company — even more so during a pandemic. For sales professionals, this decision includes considering company growth and trajectory, industry leadership, and company culture, all of which had the potential of being...

Rapid7 Announces Partner of the Year Awards 2021 Winners

Over the past year and more, we’ve lived through the most extraordinary, turbulent, and challenging times we’ll likely experience in our lifetime. Yet through all the uncertainty, our partners have continued to show determination, drive, and commitment, performing at an exceptional level. With th...

[Security Nation] Daniel Crowley on Running a Cybersecurity Internship

!\Security Nation\ Daniel Crowley on Running a Cybersecurity Internshiphttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2021/08/securitynationlogo-1.jpg On the latest episode of Security Nation, we’re joined by Daniel Crowley, IBM X-Force Red’s Research Director — aka Global Research Baron a title that...

Fortinet FortiWeb OS Command Injection

An OS command injection vulnerability in FortiWeb's management interface version 6.3.11 and prior can allow a remote, authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the system, via the SAML server configuration page. This is an instance of CWE-78: Improper Neutralization of Special...

[The Lost Bots] Episode 3: Stories From the SOC

!\The Lost Bots\ Episode 3: Stories From the SOChttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2021/08/-The-Lost-Bots--Episode-1--External-Threat-Intelligence.jpg Welcome back to The Lost Bots, a vlog series where Rapid7 Detection and Response Practice Advisor Jeffrey Gardner talks all things security wi...

Metasploit Wrap-Up

Print Driver PrivEsc If you attended DEF CON last week, you may have seen this talk on print driver vulnerabilities from Metasploit community contributor Jacob Baines. In the spirit of Friday the 13th, we're highlighting some of these "print nightmares" again, in the form of two new Metasploit...

When One Door Opens, Keep It Open: A New Tool for Physical Security Testing

As penetration testers, we spend most of our time working with different types of networks, applications, and hardware devices. Physical security is another fun area we get to work in during physical social engineering penetration tests and red team engagements, which sometimes includes attempts ...

Energize Your Incident Response and Vulnerability Management With Crowdsourced Automation Workflows

It’s no secret that most organizations need to dramatically improve their incident detection and response and vulnerability management VM programs. How many major security breaches could organizations avert if they could detect and address them at the start, when they’re still just minor incident...

ProxyShell: More Widespread Exploitation of Microsoft Exchange Servers

This attack is ongoing. See the Updates section at the end of this post for new information as it comes to light. Rapid7 also has a technical analysis of the ProxyShell exploit chain in AttackerKB. On August 5, 2021, in a Black Hat USA talk, DEVCORE researcher Orange Tsai shared information on...

Popular Attack Surfaces, August 2021: What You Need to Know

See the Updates section at the end of this post for new information as it comes to light. Whether you attended virtually, IRL, or not at all, Black Hat and DEF CON have officially wrapped, and security folks’ brains are replete with fresh information on new and some not-so-new vulnerabilities and...

Reforming the UK’s Computer Misuse Act

The UK Home Office recently ran a Call for Information to investigate the Computer Misuse Act 1990 CMA. The CMA is the UK’s anti-hacking law, and as Rapid7 is active in the UK and highly engaged in public policy efforts to advance security, we provided feedback on the issues we see with the...

Cloud Security Glossary: Key Terms and Definitions

When navigating the complexities of the public cloud, it’s easy to get lost in the endless acronyms, industry jargon, and vendor-specific terms. From K8s to IaC to Shift Left, it can be helpful to have a map to navigate the nuances of this emerging segment of the market. That’s why a few cloud...

Patch Tuesday - August 2021

Hot off the press, it’s another issue of the Patch Tuesday blog! While the number of vulnerabilities is low this month, there are a number of high risk items administrators will want to patch right away including a few that will require additional remediation steps. This Patch Tuesday also includ...

Hack Back Is Still Wack

Every year or two, we see a policy proposal around authorizing private-sector hack back. The latest of these is legislation from two U.S. Senators, Daines and Whitehouse, and it would require the U.S. Department of Homeland Security DHS to “conduct a study on the potential benefits and risks of...

Metasploit Wrap-Up

Desert heat not the 1999 film This week was more quiet than normal with Black Hat USA and DEF CON, but that didn’t stop the team from delivering some small enhancements and bug fixes! We are also excited to see two new modules 15519 and 15520 from researcher Jacob Baines’ DEF CON talk ​​Bring You...

Black Hat 2021: Rapid7 Experts Share Key Day 2 Takeaways

Here we are again, back for another day of Rapid7 expert debriefings and analysis for some of the most talked-about Black Hat sessions of this year. So without further delay, let’s take it away! Get more DEF CON 2021 insights from our Research team on Tuesday, August 10 Sign up for our What...

Slot Machines and Cybercrime: Why Ransomware Won't Quit Pulling Our Lever

Note: A more detailed version of this post is available as a preprint on the ArXiv. The casino floor at Bally's is a thrilling place, one that loads of hackers are familiar with from our time at DEF CON. One feature of these casinos is the unmistakable song of slots being played. Imagine a slot...

Black Hat 2021: Rapid7 Experts Share Key Day 1 Takeaways

OK, no big deal, we know how this goes. Once again, many of us are attending Black Hat in a virtual capacity as COVID-19 meanders its way out of our lives. The good news is that there’s an actual live component again this year in Las Vegas, and that’s progress. Here’s hoping that next year the...

[Security Nation] Richard Kaufmann on Cybersecurity in Home Healthcare

!\Security Nation\ Richard Kaufmann on Cybersecurity in Home Healthcarehttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2021/08/securitynationlogo.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, we’re joined for the second time! by Richard Kaufmann, CISO at Amedisys, a leading provider of home healthcare. He’ll te...

PetitPotam: Novel Attack Chain Can Fully Compromise Windows Domains Running AD CS

The PetitPotam attack vector was assigned CVE-2021-36942 and patched on August 10, 2021. See the Updates section at the end of this post for more information. Late last month July 2021, security researcher Topotam published a proof-of-concept PoC implementation of a novel NTLM relay attack...

The Ransomware Task Force: A New Approach to Fighting Ransomware

In the past few months, we’ve seen ransomware attacks shut down healthcare across Ireland, fuel delivery across parts of the US, and meat processing across Australia, Canada and the US. We’ve seen demands of payments in the tens of millions of dollars. We’re also continuing to see trends around...

[The Lost Bots] Episode 2: Extended Detection and Response (XDR)

!\The Lost Bots\ Episode 2: Extended Detection and Response \XDR\https://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2021/07/-The-Lost-Bots--Episode-1--External-Threat-Intelligence.jpg Welcome back to The Lost Bots, a new vlog series where Rapid7 Detection and Response Practice Advisor Jeffrey Gardner talks a...

3 Steps to Integrate Rapid7 Products Into the DevSecOps Cycle

DevSecOps is the concept and practice of integrating security into the DevOps cycle. The idea is to bring the different phases of security into the DevOps model and try to automate the entire process, so security is integrated directly into the initial application builds. In this post, we’ll take...

Metasploit Wrap-Up

New Olympic Discipline: Hive Hunting This week, community contributor Hakyac added a new Olympic discipline to Metasploit exploit sport category, which is based on the work of community security researchers @jonasLyk and Kevin Beaumont. The rules are simple: You need to abuse a flaw in Windows 10...

[Security Nation] Philipp Amann on No More Ransom

!\Security Nation\ Philipp Amann on No More Ransomhttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2021/07/securitynationlogo-2.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, we're joined by Philipp Amann of Europol. Jen and Tod chat with Philipp about No More Ransom, a Europol-lead effort to combat ransomware by...

Multiple Open Source Web App Vulnerabilities Fixed

Today, Rapid7 is disclosing 9 vulnerabilities that affect 3 open-source projects: EspoCRM, Pimcore, and Akaunting. Right out of the gate, I'd like to give a special thanks to these 3 open-source project maintainers. While it's never great to learn of new vulnerabilities in your own product, all 3...

Decrypter FOMO No Mo’: Five Years of the No More Ransom Project

The amazing No More Ransom Project celebrates its fifth anniversary today and so we just wanted to take a moment to talk about what it has accomplished and why you should tell all your friends about it. The name pretty much says it all — No More Ransom aims to help organizations avoid having to p...

Metasploit Wrap-Up

Now I Control Your Resource Planning Servers Sage X3 is a resource planning product designed by Sage Group which is designed to help established businesses plan out their business operations. But what if you wanted to do more than just manage resources? What if you wanted to hijack the resource...

What’s New in InsightAppSec and tCell: Q2 2021 in Review

If there’s a theme to InsightAppSec and tCell updates and improvements in the second quarter, it would be “save time by building it into the process.” Building a more efficient process is key in further securing web applications. Can you get it done faster from home? Or is the quickest way to the...

[Security Nation] Brian Honan on creating Ireland's first CERT

!\Security Nation\ Brian Honan on creating Ireland's first CERThttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2021/07/securitynationlogo-1.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, we’re joined by Brian Honan of BH Consulting. Jen and Tod chat with Brian about his experience as a founder of Ireland's first...

Microsoft SAM File Readability CVE-2021-36934: What You Need to Know

On Monday, July 19, 2021, community security researchers began reporting that the Security Account Manager SAM file on Windows 10 and 11 systems was READ-enabled for all local users. The SAM file is used to store sensitive security information, such as hashed user and admin passwords. READ...

Grow Your Career at Rapid7: North America Sales

As any sales professional knows, working for an organization where your growth and development are supported is key — not to mention selling a product you believe in and a company mission you can get behind. At Rapid7, you can check both of those boxes. With a stellar Business Development program...

[The Lost Bots] Episode 1: External Threat Intelligence

!\The Lost Bots\ Episode 1: External Threat Intelligencehttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2021/07/-The-Lost-Bots--Episode-1--External-Threat-Intelligence.png Welcome to The Lost Bots, a new vlog series where Rapid7 resident expert and former CISO Jeffrey Gardner virtually sits down with fell...

Rapid7 + XDR: Security that Moves as Fast as Your Business

Since launching InsightIDR almost six years ago, our mission has remained constant: make it possible for any security team to achieve fast, sophisticated threat detection and response programs that scale with their business. Making threat detection and response as agile and simple as possible...

Rapid7 Acquires IntSights to Tackle the Expanding Threat Landscape

I am pleased to share the exciting news that, today, Rapid7 acquired IntSights, a leading provider of cloud-native, external threat intelligence and proactive threat remediation. The IntSights team is fantastic, and their threat intelligence capabilities are equally impressive. I’ll share more...

Accelerating SecOps and Emergent Threat Response with the Insight Platform

When we talk to customers about the Insight Platform and how to best support their evolving needs, they're often not asking for another product, but rather a capability that enhances a current experience. Our customers have the core ingredients of a robust security program, but as their attack...

What’s New in InsightVM: Q2 2021 in Review

The world is changing rapidly. We hear that phrase a lot. Throughout Q2 though, it really is true. Vaccines have been rolling out, to varying success depending on the part of the world, but there is optimism. As Rapid7 offices begin to open up to our hard-working team members around the globe, we...

Metasploit Wrap-Up

Eternal Blue improvements Prior to this release Metasploit offered two separate exploit modules for targeting MS17-010, dubbed Eternal Blue. The Ruby module previously only supported Windows 7, and a separate ms17010eternalbluewin8 Python module would target Windows 8 and above. Now Metasploit...

Why the Robot Hackers Aren’t Here (Yet)

“Estragon: I'm like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget.” - Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot Hacking and Automation As hackers, we spend a lot of time making things easier for ourselves. For example, you might be aware of a tool called Metasploit, which can be used to make getting...

Patch Tuesday - July 2021

Microsoft has patched another 117 CVEs, returning to volumes seen in early 2021 and most of 2020. It would appear that the recent trend of approximately 50 vulnerability fixes per month was not indicative of a slowing pace. This month there were 13 vulnerabilities rated Critical with nearly the...