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1 min Detection and Response

InsightIDR’s NTA Capabilities Expanded to AWS

We’re excited to announce we have expanded the Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) capabilities in InsightIDR to support Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments.

9 min Vulnerability Management

Patch Tuesday - March 2021

Another Patch Tuesday (2021-Mar ) is upon us and with this month comes a whopping 122 CVEs.  As usual Windows tops the list of the most patched product. However, this month it’s browser vulnerabilities taking the second place, outnumbering Office vulnerabilities 3:1! Lastly, the Exchange Server vulnerabilities this month are not to be ignored as more than half of them have been seen exploited in the wild. Vulnerability Breakdown by S

3 min Cloud Security

How to Keep Up With Vulnerability Management Challenges in Ephemeral Cloud Environments

The modern perspective is that the cloud has made it much easier to have visibility of your attack surface and everything you’re working with.

3 min Metasploit

Metasploit Wrap-Up: 3/5/21

A new exploit for FortiOS and some module target updates.

4 min Emergent Threat Response

Mass Exploitation of Exchange Server Zero-Day CVEs: What You Need to Know

On March 2, Microsoft released details on an active state-sponsored threat campaign exploiting four zero-day vulnerabilities in on-premises instances of Microsoft Exchange Server.

5 min News

Rapid7’s InsightIDR Enables Detection And Response to Microsoft Exchange Zero-Day

Starting February 27, 2021, Rapid7 has observed a notable increase in the exploitation of Microsoft Exchange through existing detections in InsightIDR ’s Attacker Behavior Analytics (ABA).  The Managed Detection and Response (MDR) identified multiple, related compromises in the past 72 hours. In most cases, the attacker is uploading an “eval” webshell, commonly referred to as a “chopper” or “China chopper”. With this foothold, the attacker would then

3 min Cloud Security

How to Achieve and Maintain Continuous Cloud Compliance

Complicated cloud compliance is weighing on many organizations as off-premises security quickly becomes more of the norm.

4 min Metasploit

Metasploit Wrap-Up: 2/26/21

Flink targeting, process herpaderping, and more in this week's Metasploit wrap-up!

7 min Rapid7 Culture

Celebrating Black History Today and Every Day

In honor of Black History Month, we would like to recognize some of our amazing team members who have made an impact on our company culture, embody our core values, and exude excellence.

4 min Vulnerability Management

Building a Holistic VRM Strategy That Includes the Web Application Layer

Co-sponsored by Forrester, a recent Rapid7 webcast expounds upon the topics discussed in this blog post.

3 min News

Multiple Unauthenticated Remote Code Control and Execution Vulnerabilities in Multiple Cisco Products

On Feb. 24, 2021, Cisco released many patches for multiple products, three of which require immediate attention by organizations if they are running affected systems and operating system/software configurations.

2 min News

VMware vCenter Server CVE-2021-21972 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability: What You Need to Know

On Feb. 23, 2021, VMware published an advisory describing three weaknesses affecting VMware ESXi, VMware vCenter Server, and VMware Cloud Foundation.

3 min Career Development

Software Engineering, Vulnerability and Risk Management: Revolutionizing the Security Landscape at Rapid7

Read on to learn more about our North America VRM Software Engineering team, why they chose to bring their talents to Rapid7, and why you should, too!

2 min InsightIDR

How to Combat Alert Fatigue With Cloud-Based SIEM Tools

Fortunately, there’s a way to get the visibility your team needs and streamline alerts: leveraging a cloud-based SIEM.

4 min Metasploit Weekly Wrapup

Metasploit Wrap-Up: 2/19/21

GSoC Rocks! In a rare double whammy, one of our 2020 Google Summer of Code (GSoC) participants has authored a PR containing both enhancements & a new module ! Improvements to our SQL injection library now allow PostgreSQL injection, and this new functionality has been verified with both a test module AND a fully functioning module exploiting CVE-2019-13375 , a (Postgr