Posts tagged Research

2 min Research

What a Difference a Year Makes: Revisiting Our Inaugural Fortune 500 ICER One Year Later

It's now been a year since we released our first Fortune 500 ICER, so we decided to take a quick look at a key control, DMARC, to look for improvements.

2 min Research

Rapid7 Introduces Industry Cyber-Exposure Report: Deutsche Börse Prime Standard 320

Today, Rapid7 released our fifth Industry Cyber-Exposure Report (ICER) examining the overall exposure of the companies listed in the Deutsche Börse Prime Standard index.

6 min Vulnerability Disclosure

R7-2019-32: Denial-of-Service Vulnerabilities in Beckhoff TwinCAT PLC Environment

Rapid7 researcher Andreas Galauner has discovered two vulnerabilities affecting the TwinCAT PLC environment.

20 min Research

Open-Source Command and Control of the DOUBLEPULSAR Implant

Metasploit researcher William Vu shares technical analysis behind a recent addition to Framework: a module that executes a Metasploit payload against the Equation Group's DOUBLEPULSAR implant for SMB and allows users to remotely disable the implant.

1 min Penetration Testing

This One Time on a Pen Test: Our Accidental Win

In this blog, we recall one pen test where a placeholder password we put in actually worked with one login account.

1 min Penetration Testing

This One Time on a Pen Test: What’s in the Box?

Here is the story of how one of our penetration testers exploited ExternalBlue on a rogue access point.

2 min Penetration Testing

This One Time on a Pen Test: Your Mouse Is My Keyboard

In one engagement, we were tasked with compromising the internal network of a facility that was used for medical trials. Here's what happened.

1 min Penetration Testing

This One Time on a Pen Test: Nerds in the NERC

Here is the story of how we gained access to a NERC CIP control room in a power plant as part of a penetration testing engagement.

2 min Penetration Testing

This One Time on a Pen Test: Missed a Spot

In this penetration testing story, Ted Raffle discusses how even strong security controls and threat mitigation can miss the mark when only one or two systems fall through the cracks.

2 min Penetration Testing

This One Time on a Pen Test: How I Compromised a Healthcare Portal Before My Hot Cocoa Went Cold

Here is the story of how I used a simple SQL injection attack to compromise a healthcare portal.

2 min Penetration Testing

This One Time on a Pen Test: Paging Doctor Hackerman

In this blog, one of our penetration testers tells the story of how he hacked X-ray machine and got the keys to the entire network.

4 min Research

New Research: Investigating and Reversing Avionics CAN Bus Systems

Rapid7's recently released research report examines the security (or lack thereof) of CAN bus networks in small aircraft.

5 min Research

Industry Cyber-Exposure Report: FTSE 250+

Today, Rapid7 released our third Industry Cyber-Exposure Report, examining the overall exposure of the companies listed in the FTSE 250 index.

4 min Research

Extracting Firmware from Microcontrollers’ Onboard Flash Memory, Part 4

In our fourth and final part of this ongoing series, we will conduct further firmware extraction exercises with the Texas Instruments RF microcontroller.

4 min IoT

Extracting Firmware from Microcontrollers' Onboard Flash Memory, Part 3: Microchip PIC Microcontrollers

In this blog, we will conduct another firmware extraction exercise dealing with the Microchip PIC microcontroller (PIC32MX695F512H).