Posts tagged Research

7 min Research

Building a Printed Circuit Board Probe Testing Jig

In this blog, we discuss how to build a printed circuit board (PCB) probe testing jig.

2 min Research

Rapid7 Quarterly Threat Report: 2020 Q1

In this blog, we break down some of the top findings and highlights from the Rapid7 Quarterly Threat Report: 2020 Q1.

11 min Research

The Masked SYNger: Investigating a Traffic Phenomenon

At the beginning of 2020, Rapid7 and other researchers began noticing increased scanning activity against a variety of TCP ports.

5 min Research

CVE-2020-12271: Sophos XG Firewall Pre-Auth SQL Injection Vulnerability Remediation Guidance and Exposure Overview

On April 22, Sophos received a report documenting a suspicious field value visible in the management interface of an XG Firewall.

3 min Risk Management

Meet AttackerKB

Meet AttackerKB: a new community-driven resource that highlights diverse perspectives on which vulnerabilities make the most appealing targets for attackers.

7 min Microsoft

Phishing for SYSTEM on Microsoft Exchange (CVE-2020-0688)

As of March 24, there were over 350,000 Microsoft Exchange servers exposing a version of the software with a vulnerability.

3 min Risk Management

CVE-2020-0796: Microsoft SMBv3 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Analysis

Rapid7 analysis and exposure data on CVE-2020-0796, a critical remote code execution vulnerability in Microsoft's SMBv3 protocol.

2 min Research

Rapid7 2020 Threat Report: Exposing Common Attacker Trends

In this blog, we break-down the three key sections of the newly-released Rapid7 2020 Threat Report.

5 min Events

How We Used Data Science Magic to Predict Key RSA 2020 Themes and Takeaways

As our team discussed our traditional RSA round-up blog, we started to wonder how easy it would be to predict those key themes before the conference even kicked off.

5 min Research

DOUBLEPULSAR over RDP: Baselining Badness on the Internet

How many internet-accessible RDP services have the DOPU implant installed? How much DOPU-over-RDP traffic do we see being sprayed across the internet?

22 min Research

DOUBLEPULSAR RCE 2: An RDP Story

In this sequel, wvu [https://github.com/wvu-r7] recounts the R&D (in all its imperfect glory) behind creating a Metasploit module for the DOUBLEPULSAR implant's lesser-known RDP variant. If you're unfamiliar with the more common SMB variant, you can read our blog post [/2019/10/02/open-source-command-and-control-of-the-doublepulsar-implant/] detailing how we achieved RCE with it. Table of Contents 0. Background 1. Extracting the implant 2. Installing the implant 3. Pinging the implant 4.

4 min Research

Active Exploitation of Citrix NetScaler (CVE-2019-19781): What You Need to Know

A a directory traversal vulnerability was announced in the Citrix Application Discovery Controller and Citrix Gateway, which would allow a remote, unauthenticated user to write a file to a location on disk.

9 min Research

Oh, Behave! Who Made It to Rapid7 Labs' Naughty List(s) in 2019?

The Labs team thought it might be fun to give folks a glimpse into who made it to some of our naughtiest lists in 2019 based on insights gleaned through our research projects.

4 min Research

Cisco Self-Signed Certificate Expiration on Jan. 1, 2020: What You Need to Know

Cisco released Field Notice 70489 this week making owners of a wide range of Cisco devices of an impending certificate expiration issue.

4 min IoT

IoT Vuln Disclosure: Children's GPS Smart Watches (R7-2019-57)

In a recent IoT hacking training exercise, Rapid7 penetration testers set out to find vulnerabilities in a number of children's GPS-enabled smart watches.