7 min
Research
Stories from the SOC Part 2: MSIX Installer Utilizes Telegram Bot to Execute IDAT Loader
In part one of our blog series, we discussed how a Rust based application was used to download and execute the IDAT Loader. In part two of this series, we will be providing analysis of how an MSIX installer led to the download and execution of the IDAT Loader.
13 min
Patch Tuesday
Patch Tuesday - April 2024
One late-breaking zero-day vuln. Defender for IoT critical RCEs. Dozens of SQL OLE DB driver RCEs. Microsoft adds CWE and Vector String Source to advisories.
3 min
Metasploit
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 04/05/2024
New ESC4 Templates for AD CS
Metasploit added capabilities
for exploiting the ESC family of flaws in AD CS in Metasploit 6.3. The ESC4
technique in particular has been supported for some time now thanks to the
ad_cs_cert_templates module which enables users to read and write certificate
template objects. This facilitates the exploitation of ESC4 which is a
misconfiguration in
5 min
Managed Detection and Response (MDR)
What’s New in Rapid7 Products & Services: Q1 2024 in Review
We kicked off 2024 with a continued focus on bringing security professionals the tools and functionality needed to anticipate risks, pinpoint threats, and respond faster with confidence.
3 min
Rapid7 Disclosure
CVE-2024-0394: Rapid7 Minerva Armor Privilege Escalation (FIXED)
Rapid7 is disclosing CVE-2024-0394, a privilege escalation vulnerability in Rapid7 Minerva’s Armor product family. The root cause of this vulnerability is Minerva’s implementation of OpenSSL’s OPENSSLDIR parameter, which was set to a path accessible to low-privileged users.
4 min
Career Development
Challenges Drive Career Growth: Meet Rudina Tafhasaj
Starting a career for the first time in a new country can be intimidating. For Rudina Tafhasaj, her path to Senior Application Engineer at Rapid7 was paved with both unique challenges, and incredible rewards.
3 min
Emergent Threat Response
Backdoored XZ Utils (CVE-2024-3094)
On Friday, March 29, after investigating anomalous behavior in his Debian sid environment, developer Andres Freund contacted an open-source security mailing list to share that he had discovered an upstream backdoor in widely used command line tool XZ Utils (liblzma).
3 min
Metasploit
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 03/29/2024
Metasploit adds three new exploit modules including an RCE for SharePoint.
10 min
Malware
Stories from the SOC Part 1: IDAT Loader to BruteRatel
Rapid7’s Managed Detection and Response (MDR) team continuously monitors our customers' environments, identifying emerging threats and developing new detections.
12 min
Metasploit
Metasploit Framework 6.4 Released
Today, Metasploit is pleased to announce the release of Metasploit Framework
6.4. It has been just over a year since the release of version 6.3
and the team has added many new features and improvements since then.
For news reporters, please reach out to press@rapid7.com.
Kerberos Improvements
Metasploit 6.3 included initial support for Kerberos authentication within
Metasploit and was one of the larger features i
2 min
Metasploit
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 03/22/2024
New module content (1)
OpenNMS Horizon Authenticated RCE
Author: Erik Wynter
Type: Exploit
Pull request: #18618
contributed by ErikWynter
Path: linux/http/opennms_horizon_authenticated_rce
AttackerKB reference: CVE-2023-0872
Description: This module exploits built-in functionality in OpenNMS Horizon in
order to execute arbitrary commands as t
2 min
Research
Why The External Attack Surface Matters: An analysis into APAC related threat activities
Considerable focus within the cybersecurity industry has been placed on the attack surface of organizations, giving rise to external attack surface management (EASM) technologies as a means to monitor said surface.
9 min
Research
The Updated APT Playbook: Tales from the Kimsuky threat actor group
Within Rapid7 Labs we continually track and monitor threat groups. As part of this process, we routinely identify evolving tactics from threat groups in what is an unceasing game of cat and mouse.
2 min
Vulnerability Management
Rapid7 Offers Continued Vulnerability Coverage in the Face of NVD Delays
Recently, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced
on the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) site that
there would be delays in adding information on newly published CVEs. NVD
enriches CVEs with basic details about a vulnerability like the vulnerability’s
CVSS score, software products impacted by a CVE, information on the bug,
patching status, etc. Since February 12th, 2024, NVD has largely stopped
enriching vulnerabilities.
Given the bro
2 min
Metasploit
Metasploit Wrap-Up 03/15/2024
New module content (3)
GitLab Password Reset Account Takeover
Authors: asterion04 and h00die
Type: Auxiliary
Pull request: #18716
contributed by h00die
Path: admin/http/gitlab_password_reset_account_takeover
AttackerKB reference: CVE-2023-7028
Description: This adds an exploit module that leverages an account-take-over
vulnerability to take contr