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3 min Emergent Threat Response

High-Risk Vulnerabilities in Common Enterprise Technologies

Rapid7 is warning customers about high-risk vulnerabilities in Adobe ColdFusion, Broadcom VMware vCenter Server, and Ivanti Endpoint Manager (EPM). These CVEs are likely attack targets for APT and/or financially motivated adversaries.

6 min Attack Surface Security

Help, I can’t see! A Primer for Attack Surface Management Blog Series

In this series, we will explore the critical challenges and solutions associated with Attack Surface Management (ASM), a vital aspect of modern cybersecurity strategy.

3 min Vector Command

Rapid7 Introduces Vector Command, a New Managed Service for Continuous Red Teaming

Rapid7 is delighted to announce the launch of Vector Command, a continuous red teaming managed service designed to assess your external attack surface and identify gaps in the security defenses on an ongoing basis.

2 min Metasploit

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 09/13/2024

SPIP Modules This week brings more modules targeting the SPIP publishing platform. SPIP has gained some attention from Metasploit community contributors recently and has inspired some PHP payload and encoder improvements. New module content (2) SPIP BigUp Plugin Unauthenticated RCE Authors: Julien Voisin, Laluka, Valentin Lobstein, and Vozec Type: Exploit Pull request: #19444 contributed by Chocapikk Pat

4 min Gartner

The Growing Importance of Exposure Management: Our Key Insights from Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Security Operations, 2024

The Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Security Operations, 2024 was published in late July, and is an interesting look at the dynamic nature of both the threat landscape and the diverse range of technologies that security & risk management (SRM) professionals use to safeguard their organizations.

4 min Labs

Ransomware Groups Demystified: Lynx Ransomware

As part of our research and tracking of threats, Rapid7 Labs is actively monitoring new and upcoming threat groups and the ransomware domain is known for having a large number of them.

10 min Patch Tuesday

Patch Tuesday - September 2024

4 zero-days. Servicing Stack Win 10 1507 rollback; MotW LNK stomping bypass; Windows Installer EoP; Publisher macro bypass. SharePoint & Windows NAT critical RCEs.

4 min InsightIDR

Rapid7 Named a Leader in IDC MarketScape: Worldwide SIEM for SMB and Enterprise

Rapid7 is excited to share we have been recognized as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide SIEM for SMB 2024 Vendor Assessment.

2 min Emergent Threat Response

CVE-2024-40766: Critical Improper Access Control Vulnerability Affecting SonicWall Devices

CVE-2024-40766 is a critical improper access control vulnerability affecting SonicOS, the operating system that runs on the company’s physical and virtual firewalls. As of September 9, 2024, Rapid7 is aware of several recent incidents in which SonicWall SSLVPN accounts were targeted or compromised.

3 min Emergent Threat Response

Multiple Vulnerabilities in Veeam Backup & Replication

On September 4, 2024, Veeam released their September security bulletin disclosing various vulnerabilities, including CVE-2024-40711, a critical unauthenticated remote code execution issue affecting Veeam’s popular Backup & Replication solution.

3 min Gartner

Our 4 Essential Strategy Takeaways from the Gartner® 2024 Report – How to Prepare for Ransomware Attacks

The 2024 Gartner report, “How to Prepare for Ransomware Attacks”, provides critical insights into the latest tactics used by bad actors and offers practical solutions on how to fortify defenses.

2 min Metasploit

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 09/06/2024

Honey, I shrunk the PHP payloads This release contains more PHP payload improvements from Julien Voisin. Last week we landed a PR from Julien that added a datastore option to the php/base64 encoder that when enabled, will use zlib to compress the payload which significantly reduced the size, bringing a payload of 4040 bytes down to a mere 1617 bytes. This week's release includes a php/minify encoder which removes all unnecessary characters from the payload including comments, empty lines, leadin

17 min Vulnerability Disclosure

CVE-2024-45195: Apache OFBiz Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution (Fixed)

Apache OFBiz below 18.12.16 is vulnerable to unauthenticated remote code execution (CVE-2024-45195) on Linux and Windows. Exploitation is facilitated by bypassing previous patches.

4 min Metasploit

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 08/30/2024

A New Way to Encode PHP Payloads A new PHP encoder has been released by a community contributor, jvoisin , allowing a PHP payload to be encoded as an ASCII-Hex string. This can then be decoded on the receiver to prevent issues with unescaped or bad characters. Ray Vulnerabilities This release of Metasploit Framework also features 3 new modules to target ray.io, which is a framework for distributing AI-related workloads across multiple machines, which makes it an exce

1 min Events

Command with Confidence: Insights from Andrew Bustamante

At the recent Take Command Summit, former CIA intelligence officer and US Air Force combat veteran Andrew Bustamante shared valuable tools, tactics, and techniques from elite intelligence agencies with Rapid7’s Americas Field CTO Jeffrey Gardner in an informal chat.