Metasploit Wrap-Up
vBulletin, WordPress, and WebLogic exploits, along with some enhancements and fixes.…
Metasploit Wrap-Up
Hello, World! This week’s wrapup features six new modules, including a double-dose of Synology and everyone’s favorite, Pi-Hole. Little NAS, featuring RCE Synology stations are small(ish) NAS devices, but as Steve Kaun, Nigusu Kassahun, and h00die have shown, they are not invulnerable.…
Meet AttackerKB
Meet AttackerKB: a new community-driven resource that highlights diverse perspectives on which vulnerabilities make the most appealing targets for attackers.…
Metasploit Wrap-Up
Meterpreter bug fixes and five new modules, including an LPE exploit for SMBghost (CVE-2020-0796) and a BloodHound post module that gathers information (sessions, local admin, domain trusts, etc.) and stores it as a BloodHound-consumable ZIP file in Framework loot.…
Metasploit Wrap-Up
This week's release includes a local privilege escalation exploit for VMware Fusion through 11.5.3 on OS X, as well as RCE on Apache Solr and DNN cookie deserialization.…
Lessons Learned from an Unlikely Path to My OSCP Certification
In this blog, our own Patrick Laverty discusses lessons learned from his path to a Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP) certification.…
Ask a Pen Tester Q&A, Part 2: Everything You Need to Know About the Art of Penetration Testing
We sat down with our own penetration testers to answer some of your questions about what exactly pen testing entails.…
What You Need to Know to Get Started in the Penetration Testing Field
In this blog, we sat down with our own penetration testers to answer some of your questions to help get you started in the field.…
This One Time on a Pen Test, Halloween Edition: An Ode to Our Favorite Pen Tester Disguises
In honor of Halloween, we wanted to celebrate by sharing a few of our Rapid7 pen testers’ costumed crusades.…
This One Time on a Pen Test: “Let Me Get That for You”
In this blog, we discuss how our team successfully gained access to a client's physical building in an unlikely way.…
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.…
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.…
This One Time on a Pen Test: The Pizza of Doom
Here is the story of how I bypassed physical security controls by posing as a pizza delivery guy and showing up to my client site with a pizza pie.…
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.…
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.…
