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Metasploit
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up: Aug. 25, 2023
PowerPoint
This week’s new features and improvements start with two new exploit modules
leveraging CVE-2023-34960
Chamilo
versions 1.11.18 and below and CVE-2023-26469
in
Jorani 1.0.0. Like CVE-2023-34960
, I too,
feel attacked by PowerPoint sometimes.
We also have several impr
4 min
Cloud Security
Why Your AWS Cloud Container Needs Client-Side Security
With complex network infrastructure and the need to deploy applications across various environments, cloud containers have become increasingly necessary.
3 min
Vendor Consolidation
Three Security Vendor Consolidation Myths Debunked
While security vendor consolidation has many advantages, it’s clear that some myths about consolidation persist.
3 min
Ransomware
Ransomware-as-a-Service Cheat Sheet
Ransomware-as-a-Service, or RaaS, has taken the threat landscape by storm. Learn how to protect your organization against RaaS attacks.
2 min
Awards
Rapid7 Takes 2023 SC Awards for Vulnerability Management and Threat Detection
Rapid7 is proud to announce we have received not one, but two prestigious SC Awards this year!
2 min
Metasploit
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up: Aug. 18, 2023
Meterpreter Testing
This week’s release adds new payload tests to our automated test suite. This is
intended to help the team and community members identify issues and behavior
discrepancies before changes are made. Payloads run on a variety of different
platforms including Windows, Linux, and OS X each of which has multiple
Meterpreter implementations available that are now tested to help ensure
consistency. This should improve payload stability and make testing easier for
community members tha
2 min
Velociraptor
Join us for VeloCON 2023: Digging Deeper Together!
Rapid7 is thrilled to announce that the 2nd annual VeloCON: Digging Deeper Together virtual summit will be held this September 13th at 9 am ET.
1 min
Rapid7’s Mid-Year Threat Review
Rapid7’s 2023 Mid-Year Threat Review aggregates data and analysis from our vulnerability intelligence, managed services, and threat analytics teams to provide a mid-year snapshot of the attack landscape and give organizations actionable guidance on protecting themselves from common threats.
7 min
Vulnerability Management
What's New in CVSS v4
CVSS v4 ushers in some meaningful improvements wrapped in a bit of nuanced complexity, especially if you’re a vendor or threat researcher.
2 min
Metasploit
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up: Aug. 11, 2023
A new Metabase RCE module, updates to the citrix_formssso_target_rce module for CVE-2023-3519 to include two new targets, Citrix ADC (NetScaler) 12.1-65.25, and 12.1-64.17, and more
9 min
Vulnerability Management
Patch Tuesday - August 2023
ASP.NET zero-day vuln. Teams malicious meetings. MSMQ critical RCE. Patches & a makeover for last month's unpatched zero-day vuln.
4 min
A Message from Rapid7 CEO, Corey Thomas
Earlier today, the following email was shared with Rapid7 employees.
4 min
Metasploit
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up: Aug. 4, 2023
Fly High in the Sky With This New Cloud Exploit!
This week, a new module was added that takes advantage of both authentication
bypass and command injection in certain versions of Western Digital's MyCloud
hardware. Submitted by community member Erik Wynter
, this module gains access to the target,
attempts to bypass authentication, verifies whether that was successful, then
executes the payload with root privileges. This works on versions before
2.30.196, and offer
3 min
Penetration Testing
Why Physical Social Engineering Engagements are an Important Part of Security
In this series, we’re going to share some of our favorite tales from the pen test desk and hopefully highlight some ways you can improve your own organization’s security.
2 min
Research
Poorly Purged Medical Devices Present Security Concerns After Sale on Secondary Market
In Security Implications from Improper De-acquisition of Medical Infusion Pumps Rapid7 performs a physical and technical teardown of more than a dozen medical infusion pumps.