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4 min Cloud Security

Cloud Webinar Series Part 1: Commanding Cloud Strategies

Our new cloud security webinar series will unveil key trends, pinpoint critical challenges, and provide actionable insights for security professionals.

8 min Vulnerability Disclosure

Multiple Vulnerabilities in South River Technologies Titan MFT and Titan SFTP [FIXED]

As part of our continuing research project into managed file transfer risk, including JSCAPE MFT and Fortra Globalscape EFT Server, Rapid7 discovered several vulnerabilities in South River Technologies’ Titan MFT and Titan SFTP servers.

3 min Metasploit

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up: Oct. 13, 2023

Pollution in Kibana This week, contributor h00die added a module that leverages a prototype pollution bug in Kibana prior to version 7.6.3. Particularly, this issue is within the Upgrade Assistant and enables an attacker to execute arbitrary code. This vulnerability can be triggered by sending a queries that sets a new constructor.prototype.sourceURL directly to Elastic or by using Kibana to submit the same queries. Note that Kibana needs to be restarted or wait for c

5 min Research

The Risks of Exposing DICOM Data to the Internet

DICOM has revolutionized the medical imaging industry. However, it also presents potential vulnerabilities when exposed to the open internet.

12 min Patch Tuesday

Patch Tuesday - October 2023

Zero-day vulns in WordPad, Skype for Business, and ASP.NET. 12 critical RCEs. Last public security updates for Windows Server 2012, 2012 R2 and Windows 11 21H2.

2 min Metasploit

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up: Oct. 6, 2023

New module content (3) LDAP Login Scanner Author: Dean Welch Type: Auxiliary Pull request: #18197 contributed by dwelch-r7 Path: scanner/ldap/ldap_login Description: This PR adds a new login scanner module for LDAP. Login scanners are the classes that provide functionality for testing authentication against various different protocols and mechanisms. This LDAP login scanner supports multiple types of aut

8 min Research

Little Crumbs Can Lead To Giants

This blog offers a deep dive into the world of Shell Link files (LNK) and Virtual Hard Disk files (VHD).

4 min Detection and Response

What’s New in Rapid7 Detection & Response: Q3 2023 in Review

Rapid7 has updated its Detection and Response offerings with advanced DFIR capabilities, custom detection rules, log search features, and more.

3 min Emergent Threat Response

CVE-2023-22515: Zero-Day Privilege Escalation in Confluence Server and Data Center

On October 4, 2023, Atlassian published a security advisory on CVE-2023-22515, a critical vulnerability affecting on-premises instances of Confluence Server and Confluence Data Center.

2 min Managed Detection and Response (MDR)

Proactively Prevent Breaches with Expanded Endpoint Protection in Rapid7 MXDR

Rapid7 has expanded Managed Threat Complete to include native NGAV and DFIR powered by our universal Insight Agent.

4 min Vulnerability Management

What’s New in InsightVM and Nexpose: Q3 2023 in Review

In this article, we'll take a look at some of the key updates in InsightVM and Nexpose from Q3.

3 min Metasploit

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up: Sep. 29, 2023

TeamCity authentication bypass and remote code execution This week’s Metasploit release includes a new module for a critical authentication bypass in JetBrains TeamCity CI/CD Server. All versions of TeamCity prior to version 2023.05.4 are vulnerable to this issue. The vulnerability was originally discovered by SonarSource, and the Metasploit module was developed by Rapid7’s Principal Security Researcher Stephen Fewer who additionally published a technical analysis on AttackerKB for CVE-2023-4279

6 min Emergent Threat Response

Critical Vulnerabilities in WS_FTP Server

On September 27, 2023, Progress Software published a security advisory on multiple vulnerabilities affecting WS_FTP Server , a secure file transfer solution. There are a number of vulnerabilities in the advisory, two of which are critical (CVE-2023-40044 and CVE-2023-42657). Our research team has identified what appears to be the .NET deserialization vulnerability (CVE-2023-40044) and confirmed that it is exploitable with a single HTTPS POST request and a pre

3 min DFIR

Unlock Broader Detections and Forensics with Velociraptor in Rapid7 XDR

Rapid7 is excited to announce the integration of Velociraptor, our leading open-source DFIR framework, into the Insight Platform for InsightIDR Ultimate users — all with no additional deployment or configurations required.

3 min InsightVM

Introducing Active Risk

Security teams need better prioritization mechanisms. That's why we developed Active Risk, the new risk scoring methodology in InsightVM.