CVE-2025-53770 - Zero-day exploitation in the wild of Microsoft SharePoint servers

Overview On Saturday July 19, 2025, Microsoft released an advisory for CVE-2025-53770, a critical Remote Code Execution RCE vulnerability affecting on-premise SharePoint servers. This vulnerability has been exploited in the wild as a zero-day by an unknown threat actor prior to the disclosure fro...

CVE-2025-54309: CrushFTP Zero-Day Exploited in the Wild

On Friday, July 18, 2025, managed file transfer vendor CrushFTP released information to a private mailing list on a new critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-54309, affecting versions below 10.8.5 and 11.3.423 across all platforms. According to the public-facing vendor advisory, this...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 07/18/2025

ARM64 Windows Payload This latest metasploit-framework release marks a significant milestone, introducing the inaugural payload specifically designed for Windows ARM64 architecture: windows/aarch64/exec. This addition greatly expands the framework's capabilities, enabling penetration testers and...

Patch Tuesday - July 2025

Microsoft is addressing 137 vulnerabilities this July 2025 Patch Tuesday, which is above average. Microsoft is aware of public disclosure for just one of the vulnerabilities published today, and Microsoft isn’t aware of in-the-wild exploitation for any of today’s batch. This is the tenth...

Metasploit Wrap-Up 07/11/2025

Active Directory LDAP Library This week Metasploit added a library for working with Active Directory Domain Controllers over LDAP. The library consolidates common functionality and implements a caching mechanism to support common operations such as looking up objects by their DN, sAMAccountName, ...

Why Traditional Vulnerability Management Isn’t Working and What to Do Instead

Security teams are under more pressure than ever. With attack surfaces growing, regulations tightening, and the average breach cost climbing, it's no surprise that many organizations are rethinking how they approach vulnerability management. But here’s the catch: knowing where your vulnerabilitie...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 06/17/2025

New Modules & Adapters, and Improvements! This week’s release brings new modules, additional adapter payloads and improvements to existing modules and features. These modules target software such as ThinManager, Remote for Mac, Roundcube and more. It also includes additional work from bcoles that...

Innovative Tunnelling and Forensic Tool Abuse: IR Tales from the Field

Rapid7 Incident Response consultants Willow Shipperley and Noah Hemker contributed analysis and insight to this blog. Executive summary Rapid7’s Incident Response IR team was engaged to investigate an incident involving an attempted Cobalt Strike execution. The investigation uncovered twists and...

Critical Veeam Backup & Replication CVE-2025-23121

On Tuesday, June 17, 2025, backup and recovery software provider Veeam published a security advisory for a critical remote code execution RCE vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-23121. The vulnerability affects Backup & Replication systems that are domain joined. Veeam explicitly mentions that...

Key Takeaways from the Take Command Summit 2025: Inside the SOC – Expert Stories from the Frontlines of Threat Hunting and Malware Detection

What does it really look like to detect, contain, and respond to modern cyber threats in real time? At the Take Command 2025 Virtual Cybersecurity Summit, Inside the SOC session offered a behind-the-scenes look at how security teams are tackling everything from ransomware staging to advanced soci...

CVE-2025-4365/CVE-2024-12284: NetScaler Console/SDX Authenticated Arbitrary File Read/Write (FIXED)

During root cause analysis for the NetScaler Console vulnerability, CVE-2024-6235, Rapid7 discovered two high severity authenticated arbitrary file read and write vulnerabilities which were disclosed to the vendor in accordance with our disclosure policy. An Arbitrary File Read vulnerability...

Konica Minolta bizhub Multifunction Printer: Pass-Back Attack Vulnerability (NOT FIXED)

Overview During security testing, Rapid7 discovered that Konica Minolta bizhub 227 Multifunction printers MFPs were vulnerable to a pass-back attack. The affected products identified were: Konica Minolta bizhub MFPs Firmware Version: GCQ-Y3 and earlier This issue has been assigned the following...

CVE-2025-6543: Zero Day Exploitation of NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway

Overview On June 25, 2025, Cloud Software Group published a security bulletin for CVE-2025-6543, a new vulnerability affecting NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway. The vendor has described CVE-2025-6543 as a “Memory overflow vulnerability leading to unintended control flow and Denial of Service”...

Key Takeaways from the Take Command Summit 2025: Outpacing the Adversary – Red Teaming in a Complex Threat Landscape

The evolving complexity of modern infrastructures calls for more than traditional pen testing. In this session from the Take Command 2025 Virtual Cybersecurity Summit, red team experts shared how organizations are using continuous testing to outpace attackers — and better prepare their teams to...

From .pth to p0wned: Abuse of Pickle Files in AI Model Supply Chains

Executive summary Recent threat research highlights a growing risk in the Python and machine learning ML ecosystem: the exploitation of serialized model files, specifically those using Python’s pickle module. While commonly used for saving and loading ML models, pickle files can execute arbitrary...

Scattered Spider: Rapid7 Insights, Observations, and Recommendations

Overview of Scattered Spider and recent activity Scattered Spider also tracked as UNC3944, Scatter Swine, Muddled Libra, among other aliases is a financially motivated cybercriminal group active since at least May 2022. The group is notorious for targeting large enterprises — especially...

CVE-2025-6759: Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops - Local Privilege Escalation (FIXED)

Overview During a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure VDI breakout assessment, Rapid7 identified a Local Privilege Escalation LPE vulnerability affecting Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops. This issue was assigned CVE-2025-6759 and has a CVSS score of 7.3 High. Rapid7 observed a SYSTEM process handle wi...

Coverage Plus Context Equals Intelligent Exposure Management

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVEs is the standardized directory of publicly known software flaws that attackers can exploit to carry out cyber attacks. Vulnerability management solutions scan for CVEs to give you a list of all the gaps in your attack surface, but the volume of new...

Multiple Brother Devices: Multiple Vulnerabilities (FIXED)

Overview Update June 25, 2025: Update statistics to reflect an additional 6 affected models from Konica Minolta, Inc. Rapid7 conducted a zero-day research project into multifunction printers MFP from Brother Industries, Ltd. This research resulted in the discovery of 8 new vulnerabilities. Some o...

Patch Tuesday - June 2025

Microsoft is addressing 67 vulnerabilities this June 2025 Patch Tuesday. Microsoft has evidence of in-the-wild exploitation for just one of the vulnerabilities published today, and that is reflected in CISA KEV. Separately, Microsoft is aware of existing public disclosure for one other freshly...

Key Takeaways from the Take Command Summit 2025: Demystifying Cloud Detection & Response – The Future of SOC and MDR

Cloud adoption has fundamentally reshaped security operations, bringing flexibility and scalability, but also complexity. In this session from the Take Command 2025 Virtual Cybersecurity Summit, Rapid7’s product leaders discussed how today’s SOC and MDR capabilities must evolve to keep up. Hosted...

BlackSuit Continues Social Engineering Attacks in Wake of Black Basta’s Internal Conflict

Executive Summary There has been a significant decrease in social engineering attacks linked to the Black Basta ransomware group since late December 2024. This lapse also included the leaked Black Basta chat logs in February 2025, indicating internal conflict within the group. Despite this, Rapid...

Key Takeaways from the Take Command Summit 2025: Demystifying Cloud Detection & Response – The Future of SOC and MDR

Cloud adoption has fundamentally reshaped security operations, bringing flexibility and scalability, but also complexity. In this session from the Take Command 2025 Virtual Cybersecurity Summit, Rapid7’s product leaders discussed how today’s SOC and MDR capabilities must evolve to keep up. Hosted...

Patch Tuesday - June 2025

Microsoft is addressing 67 vulnerabilities this June 2025 Patch Tuesday. Microsoft has evidence of in-the-wild exploitation for just one of the vulnerabilities published today, and that is reflected in CISA KEV. Separately, Microsoft is aware of existing public disclosure for one other freshly...

BlackSuit Continues Social Engineering Attacks in Wake of Black Basta’s Internal Conflict

Executive Summary There has been a significant decrease in social engineering attacks linked to the Black Basta ransomware group since late December 2024. This lapse also included the leaked Black Basta chat logs in February 2025, indicating internal conflict within the group. Despite this, Rapid...

5 Things Security Leaders Need to Know About Agentic AI

From writing assistance to intelligent summarization, generative AI has already transformed the way businesses work. But we’re now entering a new phase where AI doesn’t just generate content, but takes independent action on our behalf. This next evolution is called ‘agentic AI’, and it’s moving...

Navigating AWS Migration: Achieving Clarity and Confidence

Migrating workloads to Amazon Web Services AWS represents a significant strategic opportunity, enabling greater agility, scalability, and potential for innovation. But undertaking this transition without a comprehensive strategy for visibility and security can introduce unforeseen risks,...

Metasploit Wrap-up 06/06/25

ThinManager Path Traversal CVE-2023-27855 Arbitrary File Upload Authors: Michael Heinzl and Tenable Type: Auxiliary Pull request: 20138 contributed by h4x-x0r Path: admin/networking/thinmanagertraversalupload AttackerKB reference: CVE-2023-2917 Description: Adds an auxiliary module that targets...

Cultivating Growth and Development at Rapid7

At Rapid7, we’re pushing the boundaries on what a cybersecurity company can be as we work to build a more secure digital future. In a field where the threat landscape continues to evolve, continuous learning and the development of our people becomes an engine for company success and innovation...

India's Cyber Leaders Prepare for AI-Driven Threats

As India's economy rapidly digitizes, cybersecurity challenges are becoming increasingly complex. This May, Rapid7 launched our inaugural Global Security Day series across India, bringing together top security leaders in Mumbai, Delhi, and Bengaluru to address the most pressing cyber threats faci...

Navigating AWS Migration: Achieving Clarity and Confidence

Migrating workloads to Amazon Web Services AWS represents a significant strategic opportunity, enabling greater agility, scalability, and potential for innovation. But undertaking this transition without a comprehensive strategy for visibility and security can introduce unforeseen risks,...

Rapid7 Q1 2025 Incident Response Findings

Rapid7’s Q1 2025 incident response data highlights several key initial access vector IAV trends, shares salient examples of incidents investigated by the Rapid7 Incident Response IR team, and digs into threat data by industry as well as some of the more commonly seen pieces of malware appearing i...

From Ideology to Financial Gain: Exploring the Convergence from Hacktivism to Cybercrime

Co-authored by Yaniv Allender and Alexandra Blia Introduction In the ever-evolving landscape of cyber threat actors, the lines between ideologically driven hacktivism and financially motivated cybercriminals have become increasingly blurred. Originally fueled by political, social, or ethical...

Introducing AI Attack Coverage in Exposure Command: Secure what traditional AppSec Tools miss

The rise of GenAI-powered applications – from internal copilots to customer-facing chatbots – is changing how businesses operate. While these tools drive innovation, they also introduce a fast moving, often invisible layer of risk. Most traditional AppSec tools were never built to handle the uniq...

From Ideology to Financial Gain: Exploring the Convergence from Hacktivism to Cybercrime

Introduction In the ever-evolving landscape of cyber threat actors, the lines between ideologically driven hacktivism and financially motivated cybercriminals have become increasingly blurred. Originally fueled by political, social, or ethical causes, hacktivist groups have historically engaged i...

Key Takeaways from the Take Command Summit 2025: Risk Revolution – Proactive Strategies for Exposure Management

At the Take Command 2025 Virtual Cybersecurity Summit, a standout session titled Risk Revolution brought together Rapid7 product leaders and ESG analyst Tyler Shields to unpack the evolution of exposure management — and how organizations can build more context-driven, proactive risk strategies...

Metasploit Wrap-Up 05/30/2025

The internet is a series of Tube SOCKS Metasploit has supported SOCKS proxies for years now, being able to both act as both a client by setting the Proxies datastore option and a server by running the auxiliary/server/socksproxy module. While Metasploit has supported both SOCKS versions 4a and 5,...

Seeing Is Securing: How Surface Command Expands MDR Visibility and Impact

Imagine hiring a professional security team to guard your home — only to discover they’re doing so by monitoring camera feeds from only the front of the house — securing the front door but blissfully unaware of the unlocked window in the back. That’s what many organizations face today when relyin...

CVE-2025-48045, CVE-2025-48046, CVE-2025-48047: MICI NetFax Server Product Vulnerabilities (NOT FIXED)

In the course of a penetration testing engagement, Rapid7 discovered three vulnerabilities in MICI Network Co., Ltd’s NetFax server versions 3.0.1.0. These issues allowed for an authenticated attack chain resulting in Remote Code Execution RCE against the device as the root user. While...

CVE-2025-48045, CVE-2025-48046, CVE-2025-48047: MICI NetFax Server Product Vulnerabilities (NOT FIXED)

In the course of a penetration testing engagement, Rapid7 discovered three vulnerabilities in MICI Network Co., Ltd’s NetFax server versions 3.0.1.0. These issues allowed for an authenticated attack chain resulting in Remote Code Execution RCE against the device as the root user. While...

Key Takeaways from the Take Command Summit 2025: Customer Panel on Future-Proofing VM Programs

One of the most actionable sessions at the Take Command 2025 Virtual Cybersecurity Summit came directly from the field. In a panel hosted by Aniket Menon, VP of Product Management at Rapid7, security leaders from Cross Financial Corp, Phibro Animal Health Corporation, and Miltenyi Biotec shared h...

Retail Under Siege: What Recent Cyber Attacks Tell Us About Today’s Threat Landscape

When several major UK organizations, including well-known retail brands, found themselves caught in a cyber attack earlier this year, it made headlines. But this incident wasn’t the first, and it won’t be the last. It reflects a growing trend where attackers exploit third-party vendors to breach...

Retail Under Siege: What Recent Cyber Attacks Tell Us About Today’s Threat Landscape

When several major UK organizations, including well-known retail brands, found themselves caught in a cyber attack earlier this year, it made headlines. But this incident wasn’t the first, and it won’t be the last. It reflects a growing trend where attackers exploit third-party vendors to breach...

Threats don’t wait, neither should you: Mastering Emergent Threat Response Validation

Cybersecurity is a team sport In cybersecurity, no one fights alone. Defending against modern threats requires seamless collaboration, real-time intelligence, and precision execution—just like a well-coordinated sports team. That’s why Rapid7 Labs and our Vector Command team work together to stay...

Metasploit Wrap-Up

Making Metasploit faster This week's wrap-up includes many new modules, but notably, we've upgraded Metasploit loading. Thanks to bcoles, the bootup performance when searching for a module has been increased in 20166. Also, we've reduced Metasploit startup time - in 20155. New module content 6...

What the Take Command 2025 Survey Tells Us About the State of Security

The Take Command 2025 Virtual Cybersecurity Summit wasn’t just about sharing insights, it was about listening. After the live sessions wrapped, we surveyed attendees to understand where their security programs stand today, what challenges they’re facing, and what they found most valuable during t...

NSIS Abuse and sRDI Shellcode: Anatomy of the Winos 4.0 Campaign

Co-authored byAnna Širokova and Ivan Feigl Executive summary Rapid7 has been tracking a malware campaign that uses fake software installers disguised as popular apps like VPN and QQBrowser—to deliver Winos v4.0, a hard-to-detect malware that runs entirely in memory and gives attackers remote...

Key Takeaways from the Take Command Summit 2025: Inside the Mind of an Attacker

In one of the most anticipated sessions of Take Command 2025, Raj Samani, Chief Scientist at Rapid7, sat down with Trent Teyema, former FBI Special Agent and President of CSG Strategies, for a candid conversation on how threat actors are evolving and what defenders must do to keep up. Moderated b...

Key Takeaways from the Take Command Summit 2025: Inside the Mind of an Attacker

In one of the most anticipated sessions of Take Command 2025, Raj Samani, Chief Scientist at Rapid7, sat down with Trent Teyema, former FBI Special Agent and President of CSG Strategies, for a candid conversation on how threat actors are evolving and what defenders must do to keep up. Moderated b...

Metasploit Wrap-Up 05/16/2025

New modules for everyone This week’s release is packed with new module content. We have RCE modules for Car Rental System 1.0, Wordpress plugins SureTriggers, User Registration and Membership. We also have a persistence module for LINQPad software and an auxiliary module for POWERCOM UPSMON PRO. ...