Posts tagged News

1 min Government

Rapid7 Added to Carahsoft GSA Schedule Contract

We are happy to announce that Rapid7 has been added to Carahsoft’s GSA Schedule contract, making our suite of comprehensive security solutions widely available to Federal, State, and Local agencies through Carahsoft and its reseller partners.

1 min Government

Rapid7 Now Available Through Carahsoft’s NASPO ValuePoint

Rapid7’s solutions have been added to the NASPO ValuePoint Cloud Solutions contract held by Carahsoft Technology Corp. The addition of this contract enables Carahsoft and its reseller partners to provide Rapid7’s Insight platform to participating SLED institutions.

5 min News

F5 Discloses Eight Vulnerabilities—Including Four Critical Ones—in BIG-IP Systems

On March 10, 2021, F5 disclosed eight vulnerabilities, four of which are deemed "critical."

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 [https://www.rapid7.com/products/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 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.

2 min News

Cisco Patches Recently Disclosed "sudo" Vulnerability (CVE-2021-3156) in Multiple Products

Cisco has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in most of their product portfolio.

2 min Rapid7 Perspective

Rapid7 Acquires Leading Kubernetes Security Provider, Alcide

We at Rapid7 are happy to announce that we have acquired Alcide, a leader in Kubernetes security based in Tel Aviv, Israel.

4 min News

State-Sponsored Threat Actors Target Security Researchers

On Monday, Google’s Threat Analysis Group published a blog on a widespread social engineering campaign that targeted security researchers working on vulnerability research and development.

5 min News

Update on SolarWinds Supply-Chain Attack: SUNSPOT, SUNSHUTTLE and New Malware Family Associations

New research has been published that expands the security community’s understanding of the breadth and depth of the SolarWinds attack.

2 min News

SaltStack Pre-Authenticated Remote Root (CVE-2020-16846 and CVE-2020-25592): What You Need to Know

When combined, a new pair of SaltStack vulnerabilities can result in unauthenticated remote root access on a target system.

2 min News

HP Device Manager Cavalcade of Critical CVEs (CVE-2020-6925:6927): What You Need to Know

HP released a security bulletin on Sept. 25, 2020, disclosing a set of vulnerabilities in HP Device Manager.

3 min Vulnerability Management

CVE-2020-3452 Cisco ASA / Firepower Read-Only Path Traversal Vulnerability: What You Need to Know

On July 22, Cisco released a patch for a high-severity read-only patch traversal vulnerability in its Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) products.

4 min Vulnerability Management

Windows DNS Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2020-1350): What You Need to Know

On Tuesday, July 14, 2020, Microsoft released a patch for a 17-year-old remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Windows Domain Name System (DNS) servers discovered by Check Point researchers.

4 min Vulnerability Management

CVE-2020-6287: Critical Vulnerability in SAP NetWeaver Application Server (AS) Java

The new SAP vulnerability (RECON), a critical vulnerability affecting the SAP NetWeaver Application Server (AS) Java component LM Configuration Wizard, is a huge deal.