2 min
Career Development
Rapid7’s Ciara Cullinan Recognized as Community Trailblazer in Belfast Awards Program
At the 2024 Women Who Code She Rocks Awards, Rapid7 Software Engineer II Ciara Cullinan was recognized with their ‘Community Trailblazer’ award.
8 min
Vulnerability Management
Patch Tuesday - March 2024
No zero-day vulns this month. A single critical RCE: Hyper-V guest escape. Exchange malicious DLL RCE. SharePoint ACE. Azure Kubernetes Service Confidential Containers. Windows 11 compressed folders.
3 min
Metasploit
Metasploit Wrap-Up 03/08/2024
New module content (2)
GitLab Tags RSS feed email disclosure
Authors: erruquill and n00bhaxor
Type: Auxiliary
Pull request: #18821
contributed by n00bhaxor
Path: gather/gitlab_tags_rss_feed_email_disclosure
AttackerKB reference: CVE-2023-5612
Description: This adds an auxiliary module that leverages an information
disclosure vulnerability (CVE
9 min
InsightCloudSec
Securing the Next Level: Automated Cloud Defense in Game Development with InsightCloudSec
Cloud gaming, powered by giants like AWS, is transforming the gaming industry, offering unparalleled accessibility and dynamic gaming experiences. Yet, with this technological leap forward comes an increase in cyber threats.
6 min
7 Rapid Questions
7 Rapid Questions with #77 Ray Bourque
We couldn’t pass up the opportunity to bring Boston Bruins legend Ray Bourque into the herd as we continue to expand our Bruins jersey sponsorship.
2 min
Cybersecurity
Lessons from video game companies: automation unleashes robust monitoring & observability
In this blog post, we’ll delve into how monitoring and observability capabilities enable video game organizations to bolster their cybersecurity defenses – and provide a better, more reliable gaming experience.
19 min
Emergent Threat Response
CVE-2024-27198 and CVE-2024-27199: JetBrains TeamCity Multiple Authentication Bypass Vulnerabilities (FIXED)
Rapid7’s vulnerability research team identified two new vulnerabilities affecting JetBrains TeamCity CI/CD server: CVE-2024-27198 and CVE-2024-27199, both of which are authentication bypasses.
2 min
Metasploit
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 03/01/2024
Metasploit adds an RCE exploit for ConnectWise ScreenConnect and new documentation for exploiting ESC13.
7 min
Velociraptor
How To Hunt For UEFI Malware Using Velociraptor
UEFI threats have historically been limited in number and mostly implemented by
nation state actors as stealthy persistence. However, the recent proliferation
of Black Lotus on the dark web, Trickbot enumeration module (late 2022), and
Glupteba (November 2023) indicates that this historical trend may be changing.
With this context, it is becoming important for security practitioners to
understand visibility and collection capabilities for UEFI threats
4 min
Metasploit
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 02/23/2024
LDAP Capture module
Metasploit now has an LDAP capture module thanks to the work of
JustAnda7 . This work was completed as part of the
Google Summer of Code program.
When the module runs it will by default require privileges to listen on port
389. The module implements a default implementation for BindRequest,
SearchRequest, UnbindRequest, and will capture both plaintext credentials and
NTLM hashes which can be brute-forced offline. Upon receiving a successful Bin
3 min
Vulnerability Management
High-Risk Vulnerabilities in ConnectWise ScreenConnect
On February 19, 2024 ConnectWise disclosed two vulnerabilities in their ScreenConnect remote access software. Both vulnerabilities affect ScreenConnect 23.9.7 and earlier.
3 min
InsightVM
Explanation of New Authenticated Scanning PCI DSS Requirement 11.3.1.2 in PCI DSS V4.0 and how InsightVM can help meet the Requirement
As a Certified Qualified Security Assessor (QSA) company and a trusted Rapid7 partner, MegaplanIT is committed to guiding organizations through the complexities of compliance and security standards.
5 min
Metasploit
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 02/16/2024
New Fetch Payload
It has been almost a year since Metasploit released the new fetch payloads
and since then, 43 of the 79 exploit modules have had support for fetch
payloads. The original payloads supported transferring the second stage over
HTTP, HTTPS and FTP. This week, Metasploit has expanded that protocol support to
include SMB, allowing payloads to be run using rundll3
7 min
Incident Response
RCE to Sliver: IR Tales from the Field
Rapid7 Incident Response was engaged to investigate an incident involving unauthorized access to two publicly-facing Confluence servers that were the source of multiple malware executions.
3 min
Career Development
Paving a Path to Systems Administration: Naeem Jones’ Journey with Rapid7
Prior to becoming a Systems Administrator at Rapid7, Naeem Jones entered his career in cybersecurity through the Hack. Diversity program. Hack.