Rapid7 at Black Hat USA 2026: See preemptive security in action
Black Hat USA returns to Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas this August, bringing together security practitioners, researchers, and leaders from around the world. Rap...
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KindaRails2Shell: CVE-2026-66066, Critical Arbitrary File Read and Possible Remote Code Execution in Ruby on Rails
Overview On July 29, 2026, the Ruby on Rails project published a security advisory for CVE-2026-66066, a critical vulnerability affecting Active Storage imag...
Rapid7 named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide MDR Service for Midmarket 2026 Vendor Assessment
IDC has named Rapid7 a Leader in the 2026 Worldwide Managed Detection and Response Service for Midmarket 2026 Vendor Assessment (Doc #US52992326, July 2026)....
Metasploit Framework 6.5 Released
oday we’re proud to announce that Metasploit Framework version 6.5 has been released.
Critical VMware vCenter Vulnerabilities Allow Authentication Bypass and Remote Code Execution (CVE-2026-59309, CVE-2026-59310)
Overview On July 29, 2026, Broadcom published security advisory VMSA-2026-0006 addressing multiple vulnerabilities in several VMWare products. Included in th...
CVE-2026-63077: Critical unauthenticated remote code execution in JetBrains TeamCity
Overview On July 27, 2026, JetBrains published a security advisory for CVE-2026-63077, a critical unauthenticated vulnerability affecting all versions of Tea...
How AI is Rewriting the Zero-Day Playbook for Preemptive Security
The scenario is all too familiar for any cybersecurity professional: It’s late in the day, and a critical zero-day vulnerability is disclosed. When this happ...
Check Point SmartConsole Authentication Bypass Technical Analysis (CVE-2026-16232)
Overview On July 22, 2026, Check Point published a security advisory for CVE-2026-16232, an authentication bypass in the SmartConsole login process affecting...
Rapid7 Cyber GRC is now available: Turn security action into compliance proof
Compliance has become one of the biggest operational drains on modern security teams. CISOs are being asked to manage a growing sprawl of frameworks, prove c...
The Next Evolution of MDR: Preemptive Defense and Agentic Investigation
For years, security operations followed a familiar sequence: detect suspicious activity, investigate what happened, and respond before it caused significant ...
Rapid7 and Exclusive Networks expand partnership to modernize security operations and accelerate customer success
Claudia Zoon is Senior Manager, Channel Sales at Rapid7. Across Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg, organizations are accelerating digital transformati...
What Happened Between OpenAI and Hugging Face?
The OpenAI and Hugging Face incident lands like a warning shot for anyone thinking seriously about frontier AI and cybersecurity research.
CVE-2026-16232: Critical Check Point SmartConsole Authentication Bypass Exploited in the Wild
Overview On July 22, 2026, Check Point published a security advisory for multiple vulnerabilities affecting Security Management, Multi-Domain Management, and...
What’s New in Rapid7 Products and Services: Q2 2026 in Review
If Q1 set the pace for Rapid7's tools, Q2 accelerated it. This quarter brought a steady stream of product enhancements, platform investments, and customer-dr...
From a Single Alert to 1,000 Files: Inside an Exposed WebDAV Malware Delivery Lab
Executive summary An MDR alert recently led our team to an exposed server that was doing more than hosting payloads. It was functioning as a fully operationa...
CVE-2026-63030: wp2shell a Critical Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in WordPress Core
Overview On July 17, 2026, a GitHub Security Advisory was published for CVE-2026-63030, a critical unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability affect...
Metasploit Wrap Up: An HTTP to SMB relay plus Payload Improvements
Metasploit Wrap Up Housekeeping While the Metasploit Framework will be continuing its weekly release cadence, bringing you dear reader our latest content, th...
CVE-2026-58644: Microsoft SharePoint Server Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild
Overview On July 14, 2026, Microsoft published a security advisory addressing CVE-2026-58644, a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability affecting ...
Sunsetting the Public AttackerKB Platform
What’s changing, where AttackerKB-style analysis will live, and how users can continue finding Rapid7 vulnerability intelligence. On August 18, Rapid7 will s...
Rapid7 MDR Team Discovers New SonicWall SMA1000 Zero Days being Actively Exploited (CVE-2026-15409, CVE-2026-15410)
Overview On July 14, 2026, SonicWall published a security advisory addressing two vulnerabilities affecting SMA1000 Series remote access appliances, includin...