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1 min Lost Bots

[The Lost Bots] S03E03. The Rise of The Machines

In this episode of The Lost Bots, Rapid7's Jeffrey Gardner and Stephen Davis discuss the state of AI today and where its going.

9 min DFIR

The Velociraptor 2023 Annual Community Survey

Rapid7's Velociraptor team distributed our first community survey in early 2023. Here's what we learned!

9 min Vulnerability Management

Patch Tuesday - May 2023

A relatively light 49 vulnerabilities patched in May 2023, including a new entry method for BlackLotus bootkit malware.

3 min Metasploit

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up: May 5, 2023

Throw another log on the fire Our own Stephen Fewer authored a module targeting CVE-2023-26360 affecting ColdFusion 2021 Update 5 and earlier as well as ColdFusion 2018 Update 15 and earlier. The vulnerability allows multiple paths to code execution, but our module works by leveraging a request that will result in the server evaluating the ColdFusion Markup language on an arbitrary file on the remote system. This all

11 min Penetration Testing

AppDomain Manager Injection: New Techniques For Red Teams

This article details a variety of ways to perform and utilize AppDomain Manager Injection during red team operations.

6 min Cloud Security

Cloud Security Strategies for Manufacturing

Most manufacturing organizations struggle with visibility issues in their hybrid cloud environments. This article offers strategies that can help.

4 min Managed Detection and Response (MDR)

Three Takeaways from the Gartner® Market Guide for Managed Detection and Response Services

We are proud to offer this complimentary Gartner® Market Guide for Managed Detection and Response for businesses of all sizes.

2 min Metasploit

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up: 4/28/23

Scanner That Pulls Sensitive Information From Joomla Installations This week's Metasploit release includes a module for CVE-2023-23752 by h00die . Did you know about the improper API access vulnerability in Joomla installations, specifically Joomla versions between 4.0.0 and 4.2.7, inclusive? This vulnerability allows unauthenticated users access to web service endpoints which contain sensitive information such as user and config information. This module can be used to

4 min Cloud Security

New InsightCloudSec Compliance Pack: Implementing and Enforcing ISO 27001:2022

In this article, we discuss how the recently released ISO 27001:2022 compliance pack for InsightCloudSec can benefit your organization.

4 min InsightVM

Using Rapid7 Insight Agent and InsightVM Scan Assistant in Tandem

Rapid7 Insight Agent and InsightVM Scan Assistant can improve visibility into your environment. This article explores how and when to use each.

4 min Rapid7 Culture

Starting a Career in Tech? Learn How Rapid7’s Emerging Talent Programmes Foster Long-Term Success

Rapid7’s Emerging Talent Programmes pave the way for early career professionals to have a successful career in tech.

4 min Gartner

4 Takeaways from the 2023 Gartner® Market Guide for CNAPP

In an ongoing effort to help security organizations gain greater visibility into risk, we're pleased to offer this complimentary Gartner research, and share our 4 takeaways from the 2023 Gartner® Market Guide for CNAPP.

3 min Metasploit

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up: 4/21/23

VMware Workspace ONE Access exploit chain A new module contributed by jheysel-r7 exploits two vulnerabilities in VMware Workspace ONE Access to attain Remote Code Execution as the horizon user. First being CVE-2022-22956 , which is an authentication bypass and the second being a JDBC injection in the form of CVE-2022-22957 ultimately granting us RCE. The module

3 min Research

3 Key Challenges to Clarity in Threat Intelligence: 2023 Forrester Consulting Total Economic Impact™ Study

The 2023 Forrester Consulting Total Economic Impact™ Study of Threat Command looks at, among other things, the difficulties of obtaining clear threat intel.

6 min Velociraptor

Automating Qakbot Detection at Scale With Velociraptor

This blog offers a practical methodology to extract configuration data from recent Qakbot samples.