Understanding Ubiquiti Discovery Service Exposures
On Jan. 29, the Rapid7 Labs team was informed of a tweet by Jim Troutman indicating that Ubiquiti devices were being exploited and used to conduct denial-of-service attacks using a service on 10001/UDP.…
Cisco RV320/RV325 Router Unauthenticated Configuration Export Vulnerability (CVE-2019-1653): What You Need to Know
Last week, a critical configuration weakness in Cisco® routers was responsibly disclosed on the Full Disclosure mailing list. Here's what you need to know.…
Rapid7 Industry Cyber-Exposure Report Highlights the Need for Vulnerability Management
In our recently released Industry Cyber-Exposure Report: Fortune 500, we uncovered that companies across all industries in the U.S. Fortune 500 are showing signs of recurring compromise.…
Happy HaXmas! Year-End Internet Scanning Observations
As we wrap up 2018 and forge ahead into 2019, let's reflect on some of the key observations we made through our internet scanning with Project Sonar.…
The Ghost of Exploits Past: A Deep Dive into the Morris Worm
In this post, we will dive into the exploit development process for the three modules we created in honor of the 30th anniversary of the Morris worm.…
Once a Haxer, Always a Haxor
Like most hackers, I liked to take apart my holiday gifts as a kid. In this blog, I take apart Amazon's voice-controlled microwave oven to see how it works.…
Rsunk your Battleship: An Ocean of Data Exposed through Rsync
Rapid7 Labs recently decided to take a fresh look at rsync, this time focusing on exposure of rsync globally on the public internet.…
Charting the Forthcoming PHPocalypse in 2019
This experiment began when Josh Frantz remarked that he would be curious about the potential exposure from the just-reached EOL date for PHP Version 7.0 and the forthcoming EOL date for PHP 5.6.…
Q3 Threat Report: Analyzing Three Key Detection Trends
In this post, we will review findings from our 2018 Q3 Threat Report, including common attack types, the Emotet malware, and protocol poisoning.…
How Rapid7 Researchers Used Data Science to Wrangle Messy WHOIS Data
As part of our research for the Industry Cyber-Exposure Report: Fortune 500, we attempted to quantify the public exposure of various organizations.…
Rapid7 Introduces Industry Cyber-Exposure Report: Fortune 500
Today, Rapid7 released our first Industry Cyber-Exposure Report, examining the overall exposure of the Fortune 500 family of companies.…
How Your Organization Can Respond After News of a Major Security Breach
When data breaches occur, there are proactive actions organizations can take to double-check their current-state security posture, practices, and protocols.…
Rapid7 Quarterly Threat Report: 2018 Q3
The leaves are falling and it’s getting colder, which means it’s time for our newest Quarterly Threat Report.…
Introducing Metasploit’s First Evasion Modules
Rapid7's Metasploit team is proud to announce we have released the first-ever antivirus evasion module in Metasploit Framework.…
This One Time on a Pen Test, Part 5: From Physical Security Weakness to Strength
During a physical social engineering penetration test, I easily got into the office with the help of a copied badge and polite employees. But would the company learn its lesson?…
