Posts by Pearce Barry

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Metasploit Wrapup: Dec. 22, 2017

Even with the year winding down to a close, activity around Metasploit has been decidedly “hustle and bustle”. Some cool new things to talk about this week, so sit back and dig in! For Your iOS Only If you’ve been wanting to run Meterpreter under iOS, then this bit is for you! While Mettle has technically worked on iOS [https://github.com/rapid7/mettle/pull/54] since February, @timwr [https://github.com/timwr] has added official Metasploit Framework support [https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit

2 min Metasploit Weekly Wrapup

Metasploit Wrapup: Nov. 17, 2017

This is a time of year when many folks in the U.S. reflect on things in their lives that they are thankful for. There’s also usually a turkey involved, but we figured we’d pardon the bird [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Thanksgiving_Turkey_Presentation] this wrapup and just focus on things we Metasploit folks here at Rapid7 are thankful for. Community Contributors We are SUPER THANKFUL for our community contributors [https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/graphs/contributors] an

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Testing Developer Security with Metasploit Pro Task Chains

In this modern age, technology continues to make inroads into all sorts of industries. Everything from smartphones to late-model automobiles to internet-connected toasters requires software to operate, and this proliferation of software has brought along gaggles of software developers with their tools-of-the-trade. All this technology —not to mention the people utilizing it— can result in an increased attack surface for organizations doing software development. In this blog post, we’ll explore

2 min Metasploit Weekly Wrapup

Metasploit Wrapup: Sep. 22, 2017

To celebrate this first day of Autumn[1], we've got a potpourri of "things Metasploit" for you this week. And it might smell a bit like "pumpkin spice"... Or it might not. Who knows? Winter is Coming If you're looking to finish filling your storehouse before the cold sets in, we've got a couple of new gatherer modules to help. This new Linux post module [https://www.rapid7.com/db/modules/post/linux/gather/tor_hiddenservices] can locate and pull TOR hostname and private key files for TOR hidden

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Metasploit Wrapup: Sept. 15, 2017

It's been a hot minute since the last Metasploit Wrapup. So why not take in our snazzy new Rapid7 blog makeover and catch up on what's been goin' down! You can't spell 'Struts' without 'trust' Or perhaps you can! With the all the current news coverage around an Apache Struts vulnerability from earlier this year [https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5638] (thanks to its involvement in a consumer credit reporting agency data breach), there's a new Struts vuln [https://lgtm.com/

2 min Metasploit Weekly Wrapup

Metasploit Wrapup: August 11, 2017

Slowloris: SMB edition Taking a page from the Slowloris HTTP DoS attack [https://web.archive.org/web/20090822001255/http://ha.ckers.org/slowloris/], the aptly named SMBLoris DoS attack [/2017/08/03/smbloris-what-you-need-to-know] exploits a vuln contained in many Windows releases (back to Windows 2000) and also affects Samba (a popular open source SMB implementation). Through creation of many connections to a target's SMB port, an attacker can exhaust all available memory on the target by sendi

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Metasploit Wrapup 8/4/17

With Hacker Summer Camp 2017 wrapped up and folks now recovering from it, why not grab a drink and read up on what's new with Metasploit? Where there's smoke... At least a few versions [https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/documentation/modules/exploit/linux/http/ipfire_oinkcode_exec.md] of open source firewall IPFire contain a post-auth RCE vulnerability, and we (well, you!) now have a module to help exploit that [https://www.rapid7.com/db/modules/exploit/linux/http/ipfi

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Weekly Metasploit Wrapup: 2/23/17

I gave at the office The office can be a popular place when it comes to giving. From selling kids' cookies/candy to raising awareness for a charity, the opportunity to 'give at the office' is definitely a thing. And now, thanks to Office macros, Metasploit offers a new way to give (and receive!) at 'the Office'. These days, using malicious macros in office productivity programs is still a common attack vector. Designed with a handful of word-processing programs in mind (including some open sour