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Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 01/31/25
ESC4 Detection This week, Metasploit’s jheysel-r7 updated the existing ldapescvulnerablecertfinder module to include detecting template objects that can be written to by the authenticated user. This means the module can now identify instances of ESC4 from the perspective of the account that the...
Paying It Forward: Giving and Receiving Mentorship in Tech
I’ve never actually seen the 2000 romantic drama Pay It Forward , but the movie’s core idea has stayed with me since I first heard of it: The best way to repay a favor or good deed is to do one for someone else. You ‘pay it forward,’ and ask that person to do likewise, creating an expanding web o...
The 2024 Ransomware Landscape: Looking back on another painful year
The ransomware landscape in 2024 continued to evolve at a rapid pace, outgrowing many of the trends we saw in 2023. Threat actors remained relentless and innovative, targeting organizations of all sizes and sectors. In this post, we’ll examine the latest data points, discuss notable groups, and...
The 2024 Ransomware Landscape: Looking back on another painful year
The ransomware landscape in 2024 continued to evolve at a rapid pace, outgrowing many of the trends we saw in 2023. Threat actors remained relentless and innovative, targeting organizations of all sizes and sectors. In this post, we’ll examine the latest data points, discuss notable groups, and...
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 01/24/2025
LibreNMS Authenticated RCE module and ESC15 improvements This week the Metasploit Framework was blessed with an authenticated RCE module in LibreNMS, an autodiscovering PHP/MySQL-based network monitoring system. An authenticated attacker can create dangerous directory names on the system and alte...
The Vulnerability Vortex: Escaping the Whirlpool of Ineffective Security
Drowning in data: The modern security dilemma In today's interconnected digital landscape, organizations find themselves caught in a relentless torrent of security alerts and vulnerability notifications. As cyber threats evolve at breakneck speed, security teams struggle to keep their heads above...
Key Takeaways: Mastering Risk Prioritization with Rapid7 Surface Command
Managing risk in today’s sprawling IT environments demands precision and adaptability. Security teams face a constant influx of data from various tools, each offering fragmented insights. Rapid7’s Surface Command takes control of this chaos, consolidating data and delivering actionable insights...
Metasploit Wrap-Up 01/17/2025
Clarity in Cleo Exploitation Last Month, Huntress reported that several Cleo products were being attacked in the wild, including Harmony, VLTrader, and LexiCom. Cleo announced CVE-2024-50623 and that these issues were patched in 5.8.0.21, but Huntress reported the vulnerability was still in those...
Perfect Fit or Business Threat? How to Mitigate the Risk of Rogue Employees
Rogue employees present significant financial and cybersecurity risks to organizations. Rapid7 threat researchers and penetration testers are actively observing how malicious actors exploit hiring pipelines to infiltrate businesses. This blog highlights real-world tactics, including: Insider...
Fortinet Firewalls Hit with New Zero-Day Attack, Older Data Leak
Executive summary Rapid7 is investigating two separate events affecting Fortinet firewall customers: Zero-day exploitation of CVE-2024-55591, an authentication bypass vulnerability in FortiOS and FortiProxy disclosed earlier this week. Successful exploitation could allow remote attackers to gain...
Fortinet Firewalls Hit with New Zero-Day Attack, Older Data Leak
Executive summary Rapid7 is investigating two separate events affecting Fortinet firewall customers: Zero-day exploitation of CVE-2024-55591, an authentication bypass vulnerability in FortiOS and FortiProxy disclosed earlier this week. Successful exploitation could allow remote attackers to gain...
Patch Tuesday - January 2025
Microsoft is addressing 161 vulnerabilities this January 2025 Patch Tuesday. Microsoft has evidence of in-the-wild exploitation and/or public disclosure for eight of the vulnerabilities published today, with three listed on CISA KEV. This is now the fourth consecutive month where Microsoft has...
Patch Tuesday - January 2025
Microsoft is addressing 161 vulnerabilities this January 2025 Patch Tuesday. Microsoft has evidence of in-the-wild exploitation and/or public disclosure for eight of the vulnerabilities published today, with three listed on CISA KEV. This is now the fourth consecutive month where Microsoft has...
Metasploit Wrap-Up 01/10/2025
New module content 5 OneDev Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Read Authors: Siebene and vultza Type: Auxiliary Pull request: 19614 contributed by vultza Path: gather/onedevarbitraryfileread AttackerKB reference: CVE-2024-45309 Description: This adds an exploit module for an unauthenticated arbitrary...
Securing Success: Stories from the SOC Webinar Series
In today’s fast-paced threat landscape, SOC Security Operations Center teams are under relentless pressure. Cyberattacks are evolving, threat volumes are skyrocketing, and attackers are exploiting vulnerabilities faster than ever. To navigate these challenges, Rapid7 has launched the "Securing...
Unlocking the Power of AI in Cybersecurity: Key Takeaways from Our Latest Webinar
Today's SOC teams have to face dramatic challenges that include overwhelming volumes of alerts, blurred perimeter protections, and resource constraints; meanwhile, AI is bursting into SOC workflows as one of the most important elements in addressing these issues more productively and letting team...
Built In Honors Rapid7 with “2025 Best Places To Work” Award
3 Rapid7 Offices Included in Built In’s “Best Places to Work” Lists Built In has announced that Rapid7 is being honored in the 2025 Best Places To Work Awards. Specifically, Rapid7 earned recognition for three office locations: Austin, Boston, and Arlington Washington DC. The annual awards progra...
New Research: Enhancing Botnet Detection with AI using LLMs and Similarity Search
As botnets continue to evolve, so do the techniques required to detect them. While Transport Layer Security TLS encryption is widely adopted for secure communications, botnets leverage TLS to obscure command-and-control C2 traffic. These malicious actors often have identifiable characteristics...
CVE-2025-0282: Ivanti Connect Secure Zero-Day Exploited in the Wild
On Wednesday, January 8, 2025, Ivanti disclosed two CVEs affecting Ivanti Connect Secure, Policy Secure, and Neurons for ZTA gateways. CVE-2025-0282 is a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability that allows remote, unauthenticated attackers to execute code on the target device. CVE-2025-0283 is ...
Rapid7 Recognized with Top Score of 100 in 2025 Corporate Equality Index
On January 7, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation released their 2025 Corporate Equality Index CEI, where Rapid7 earned a top score of 100. The CEI is the nation’s leading benchmark for LGBTQ+ workforce equality, evaluating policies and practices in areas such as non-discrimination, equitable...
Out With the Old, In With the New: Securely Disposing of Smart Devices
So, what did you get for Christmas this year? Hopefully you received some cool smart technology, or maybe you just upgraded your smart camera or voice assistant to a newer model or version. If you upgraded to a new model or version, what is your plan for the old device? Is it still working or is ...
Metasploit 2024 Annual Wrap-Up
Another year has come and gone, and the Metasploit team has taken some time to review the year’s notable additions. This year saw some great new features added, Metasploit 6.4 released and a slew of new modules. We’re grateful to the community members new and old that have submitted modules and...
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 12/20/2024
New module content 4 GameOverlay Privilege Escalation and Container Escape Authors: bwatters-r7, g1vi, gardnerapp, and h00die Type: Exploit Pull request: 19460 contributed by gardnerapp Path: linux/local/gameoverlayprivesc AttackerKB reference: CVE-2023-2640 Description: Adds a module for...
What’s New in Rapid7 Products & Services: Q4 2024 in Review
This quarter at Rapid7 we continued to make investments across our Command Platform to provide security professionals with a holistic, actionable view of their entire attack surface - from Exposure Management to Detection and Response. Below, we’ve highlighted key releases and updates from the...
Take Command of Your Career: Practicing Self-Advocacy as a Woman in Tech
As the year draws to a close, it’s essential—and often expected—to reflect on our achievements and lessons learned in preparation for annual performance reviews and setting future goals.For women in tech, this reflection period can be an especially powerful tool. The industry often demands that...
2024 Threat Landscape Statistics: Ransomware Activity, Vulnerability Exploits, and Attack Trends
Now that we’ve reached the end of another year, you may be looking around the cybersecurity infosphere and seeing a glut of posts offering “hot takes” on the 2024 threat landscape and predictions about what’s coming next. At Rapid7, we don’t truck in hot takes, but rather, cold hard facts. Stayin...
2024 Threat Landscape Statistics: Ransomware Activity, Vulnerability Exploits, and Attack Trends
Now that we’ve reached the end of another year, you may be looking around the cybersecurity infosphere and seeing a glut of posts offering “hot takes” on the 2024 threat landscape and predictions about what’s coming next. At Rapid7, we don’t truck in hot takes, but rather, cold hard facts. Stayin...
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 12/13/2024
It’s raining RCEs! It's the second week of December and the weather forecast announced another storm of RCEs in Metasploit-Framework land. This weekly release includes RCEs for Moodle e-Learning platform, Primefaces, WordPress Really Simple SSL and CyberPanel along with two modules to change...
Navigating Choppy Waters: Top Security Predictions from Rapid7's 2025 Webinar
It's that time of year again — one year is ending and another is set to begin.. And what a year it's been for the security community! The sheer scale of incidents has left SecOps teams breathless, so thinking about what could be in store next year can be overwhelming. But there's no need to panic...
Modular Java Backdoor Dropped in Cleo Exploitation Campaign
Many thanks to Rapid7 MDR and incident response teams for their contributions to this analysis. While investigating incidents related to Cleo software exploitation, Rapid7 Labs and MDR observed a novel, multi-stage attack that deploys an encoded Java Archive JAR payload. Our investigation reveale...
Modular Java Backdoor Dropped in Cleo Exploitation Campaign
Many thanks to Rapid7 MDR and incident response teams for their contributions to this analysis. While investigating incidents related to Cleo software exploitation, Rapid7 Labs and MDR observed a novel, multi-stage attack that deploys an encoded Java Archive JAR payload. Our investigation reveale...
Patch Tuesday - December 2024
Microsoft is addressing 70 vulnerabilities this December 2024 Patch Tuesday. Microsoft has evidence of in-the-wild exploitation and public disclosure for one of the vulnerabilities published today, and this is reflected in a CISA KEV entry. For the third month in a row, Microsoft has published...
Patch Tuesday - December 2024
Microsoft is addressing 70 vulnerabilities this December 2024 Patch Tuesday. Microsoft has evidence of in-the-wild exploitation and public disclosure for one of the vulnerabilities published today, and this is reflected in a CISA KEV entry. For the third month in a row, Microsoft has published...
Widespread Exploitation of Cleo File Transfer Software (CVE-2024-55956)
On Monday, December 9, multiple security firms began privately circulating reports of in-the-wild exploitation targeting Cleo file transfer software. Late the evening of December 9, security firm Huntress published a blog on active exploitation of three different Cleo products docs: Cleo VLTrader...
Widespread Exploitation of Cleo File Transfer Software (CVE-2024-55956)
On Monday, December 9, multiple security firms began privately circulating reports of in-the-wild exploitation targeting Cleo file transfer software. Late the evening of December 9, security firm Huntress published a blog on active exploitation of three different Cleo products docs: Cleo VLTrader...
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 12/06/2024
Post-Thanksgiving Big Release This week's release is an impressive one. It adds 9 new modules, which will get you remote code execution on products such as Ivanti Connect Secure, VMware vCenter Server, Asterisk, Fortinet FortiManager and Acronis Cyber Protect. It also includes an account takeover...
Rapid7 Extends Cloud Security Capabilities with Updates to Exposure Command
The cloud has become the backbone of modern innovation, powering everything from AI to remote work. But as organizations embrace the cloud, they also face an ever-expanding and increasingly complex attack surface. With purpose-built harvesting technology providing real-time visibility into...
Rapid7 Extends Cloud Security Capabilities with Updates to Exposure Command
The cloud has become the backbone of modern innovation, powering everything from AI to remote work. But as organizations embrace the cloud, they also face an ever-expanding and increasingly complex attack surface. With purpose-built harvesting technology providing real-time visibility into...
Black Basta Ransomware Campaign Drops Zbot, DarkGate, and Custom Malware
Executive Summary Beginning in early October, Rapid7 has observed a resurgence of activity related to the ongoing social engineering campaign being conducted by Black Basta ransomware operators. Rapid7 initially reported the discovery of the novel social engineering campaign back in May, 2024,...
Black Basta Ransomware Campaign Drops Zbot, DarkGate, and Custom Malware
Executive Summary Beginning in early October, Rapid7 has observed a resurgence of activity related to the ongoing social engineering campaign being conducted by Black Basta ransomware operators. Rapid7 initially reported the discovery of the novel social engineering campaign back in May, 2024,...
Lorex 2K Indoor Wi-Fi Security Camera: Multiple Vulnerabilities (FIXED)
The Lorex 2K Indoor Wi-Fi Security Camera is a consumer security device that provides cloud-based video camera surveillance capabilities. This device was a target at the 2024 Pwn2Own IoT competition. Rapid7 developed an unauthenticated remote code execution RCE exploit chain as an entry for the...
Lorex 2K Indoor Wi-Fi Security Camera: Multiple Vulnerabilities (FIXED)
The Lorex 2K Indoor Wi-Fi Security Camera is a consumer security device that provides cloud-based video camera surveillance capabilities. This device was a target at the 2024 Pwn2Own IoT competition. Rapid7 developed an unauthenticated remote code execution RCE exploit chain as an entry for the...
Expanded SOC Coverage Into AWS Environments with Rapid7 MXDR
Co-athored by Mikayla Wyman and Ryan Blanchard As organizations increasingly rely on AWS for scalability and innovation, the complexity of securing these environments grows. AWS offers a robust set of native services and a comprehensive ecosystem, but managing security signals and responding to...
Why Cybercriminals Are Not Necessarily Embracing AI
As published in HackerNoon and featured as a “Top 20 Best Read Article” for AI. Introduction The rapid advancement of AI has offered powerful tools for malware detection, but it has also introduced new avenues for adversarial attacks. As an example, recently OpenAI reported threat actors abusing...
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 11/29/2024
New module content 4 Acronis Cyber Protect/Backup machine info disclosure Authors: Sandro Tolksdorf of usd AG. and h00die-gr3y [email protected] Type: Auxiliary Pull request: 19582 contributed by h00die-gr3y Path: gather/acroniscyberprotectmachineinfodisclosure AttackerKB reference:...
New “CleverSoar” Installer Targets Chinese and Vietnamese Users
CleverSoar Installer Used to Deploy Nidhogg Rootkit and Winos4.0 Framework Against Targeted Users In early November, Rapid7 Labs identified a new, highly evasive malware installer, 'CleverSoar,' targeting Chinese and Vietnamese-speaking victims. CleverSoar is designed to deploy and protect multip...
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 11/22/2024
JetBrains TeamCity Login Scanner Metasploit added a login scanner for the TeamCity application to enable users to check for weak credentials. TeamCity has been the subject of multiple ETR vulnerabilities and is a valuable target for attackers. Targeted DCSync added to Windows Secrets Dump This...
A Bag of RATs: VenomRAT vs. AsyncRAT
Introduction Remote access tools RATs have long been a favorite tool for cyber attackers, since they enable remote control over compromised systems and facilitate data theft, espionage, and continuous monitoring of victims. Among the well-known RATs are VenomRAT and AsyncRAT. These are open-sourc...
Multiple Vulnerabilities in Wowza Streaming Engine (Fixed)
Wowza Streaming Engine below v4.9.1 is vulnerable to multiple vulnerabilities on Linux and Windows. An unauthenticated attacker can poison the Wowza Streaming Engine Manager web dashboard with a stored cross-site scripting “XSS” payload. When an administrator views the poisoned dashboard,...
Multiple Vulnerabilities in Wowza Streaming Engine (Fixed)
Wowza Streaming Engine below v4.9.1 is vulnerable to multiple vulnerabilities on Linux and Windows. An unauthenticated attacker can poison the Wowza Streaming Engine Manager web dashboard with a stored cross-site scripting “XSS” payload. When an administrator views the poisoned dashboard,...