12 min
Vulnerability Management
Patch Tuesday - November 2024
4 zero-days. AD CS ESC15 aka EKUwu. NTLMv2 disclosure. Exchange sender spoofing. Task scheduler EoP. .NET & Kerberos critical RCEs. Welcome Server 2025.
5 min
Malware
LodaRAT: Established Malware, New Victim Patterns
Rapid7 has observed an ongoing malware campaign involving a new version of LodaRAT. This version possesses the ability to steal cookies and passwords from Microsoft Edge and Brave.
3 min
Metasploit
Metasploit Wrap-Up: 11/08/2024
RISC-V Support
This release of Metasploit Framework has added exciting new features such as new
payloads that target the RISC-V architecture. These payloads allow for the
execution of commands on compromised hardware, allowing Metasploit Framework and
Metasploit Payloads to be used in more environments.
SMB To HTTP(S) Relay
This new exploit worked on by Rapid7 contributors targets the ESC8
vulnerability. This work is a part of the recent Kerberos and Active Directory
efforts targeting multiple
3 min
Attack Surface Security
Mind the Gap: How Surface Command Tackles Asset Visibility in Attack Surface Management
By establishing visibility of the attack surface and implementing management processes to prioritize, validate, and mobilize responses, security teams can reduce exposures exploited by malicious threat actors.
4 min
Career Development
Cathal O’Neill - Taking Command of Your Career in Tech
Cathal O’Neill joined Rapid7 in 2023 as a Senior Engineering Manager, and he has since advanced to the role of Engineering Director.
3 min
Cybersecurity
20/20 Cybersecurity: Lessons Learned in 2024 and Strategies for a Stronger 2025
With 2024 rapidly coming to a close, many of us here at Rapid7 are taking a step back, reflecting upon the successes and learnings of the last 12 months, and looking ahead to the challenges and opportunities we could jointly face in the year ahead.
6 min
Metasploit
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 11/01/2024
Pool Party Windows Process Injection
This Metasploit-Framework release includes a new injection technique deployed on
core Meterpreter functionalities such as process migration and DLL Injection.
The research of a new injection technique known as PoolParty
highlighted new ways to gain code execution on a remote process by abusing
Thread-Pool management features included on Windows kernel starting from Windows
Vista.
8 min
Velociraptor
Finding the LNK: Techniques and methodology for advanced analysis with Velociraptor
In this post, we explore the structure of LNK files using Velociraptor, our open-source digital forensics and incident response (DFIR) tool.
7 min
Incident Response
Investigating a SharePoint Compromise: IR Tales from the Field
Our investigation uncovered an attacker who accessed a server without authorization and moved laterally across the network, compromising the entire domain.
7 min
Surface Command
The Importance of Asset Context in Attack Surface Management.
This topic covers one of the main drivers for ASM and why companies are investing in it, the context it delivers to inform better security decision making.
2 min
Metasploit
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 10/25/2024
Hackers and Vampires Agree: Every Byte Counts
Headlining the release today is a new exploit module by jheysel-r7
that chains two vulnerabilities to target
Magento/Adobe Commerce systems: the first, CVE-2024-34102
is an arbitrary
file read used to determine the version and layout of the glibc library, and the
second, CVE-2024-2961
is a single
6 min
Surface Command
Building a Custom Risk Prioritization and Risk Scoring Methodology with Surface Command
With our recent launch of the Command Platform, Rapid7 now delivers a more comprehensive view of your attack surface, with transparency that you can trust.
3 min
Emergent Threat Response
Fortinet FortiManager CVE-2024-47575 Exploited in Zero-Day Attacks
On Wednesday, October 23, 2024, security company Fortinet published an advisory on CVE-2024-47575, a critical zero-day vulnerability affecting their FortiManager network management solution.
3 min
Metasploit
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 10/18/2024
ESC15: EKUwu
AD CS continues to be a popular target for penetration testers and security
practitioners. The latest escalation technique (hence the the ESC in ESC15) was
discovered by
Justin Bollinger with details being released just last
week. This latest configuration flaw has common issuance requirements to other
ESC flaws such as requiring no authorized signatures or manager approval.
Additionally, templa
4 min
Career Development
7 Rapid Questions on our Belfast Placement Programme: Orla Magee and Paddy McDermott
Software Engineers Orla Magee and Paddy McDermott share what the interview process looked like for them, along with impactful projects and advice for others exploring Rapid7’s Placement Programme.