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SHA256 a6f3b7f932761fb1fd5e74123f2482e36c65dd13e769af2ce08c65da195bfa7a

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SHA256 652508a9cf40bee883dc0e5e219dfeba71fe7dac591d01c89f74c21f73b4963f

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Higher education is under siege, and fragmented security is making it harder to respond

Higher education faces a difficult security equation. Universities hold large volumes of sensitive student, financial, health, and research data while supporting open networks, distributed users, legacy infrastructure, and increasingly complex cloud environments. Attackers have taken notice, and the pressure on security teams continues to grow.In Q2 2025, universities faced an average of 4,388 cyb

Rapid7 Named Among Notable Vendors in Forrester MDR Landscape: Why the Future is Exposure-informed, Preemptive MDR

The managed detection and response (MDR) market has reached a turning point. We’ve gone beyond the baseline of 24/7 monitoring focusing on the speed of detection and moved to a world with a convergence of exposure management and response to deliver measurable, outcome-based defenses of a larger, AI-driven attack surface.For anyone evaluating MDR right now, the Managed Detection and Response Servic

IP 122.116.138.33

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SHA256 a37ea9897221d4495b538de72b74f2aa1d2ff09b7b6dcedd395aee58931adbf3

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CVE-2026-21589: Critical unauthenticated arbitrary file access in Atlassian products

OverviewOn October 5, 2026, Atlassian published a security advisory for CVE-2026-21589, a critical arbitrary file access vulnerability affecting eight products: Bitbucket Data Center, Confluence Data Center, Jira Service Management Data Center, Jira Software Data Center, Bamboo Data Center, Crowd Data Center, Crucible, and Fisheye. Atlassian assigned the vulnerability a CVSSv4 score of 9.3. An una

CVE-2026-85706: Critical GitLab Path Traversal Exploited in the Wild

OverviewOn September 10, 2026, GitLab published a critical patch release for GitLab Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE). The release addresses CVE-2026-85706, a critical path traversal vulnerability (CWE-22) in the repository commits API with a CVSSv3.1 score of 10.0. According to GitLab, improper path confinement and missing authentication enforcement could allow an unauthenticated

Critical Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager API authentication bypass exploited in the wild (CVE-2026-76504)

OverviewOn September 30, 2026, Cisco published a security advisory for CVE-2026-76504, a critical API authentication bypass vulnerability affecting Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager. The vulnerability has a CVSSv3.1 score of 9.8 and results from improper handling of URL encoding (CWE-177). An unauthenticated, remote attacker can send a crafted HTTP request that bypasses an authentication rule for a sp

When Business Email Compromise Starts Rewriting Reality

Business Email Compromise (BEC) operates on a familiar playbook. Threat actors breach a mailbox, silently monitor operations, map approval chains, and ultimately exploit that access to divert funds or exfiltrate sensitive assets.This dynamic is central to our analysis as we kick off a series around Rapid7's collaborative research with Zimbra; upcoming installments will explore technical details an

CVE-2026-76461: Critical Cisco Secure Email Gateway Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild

OverviewOn September 14, 2026, Cisco published a security advisory for CVE-2026-76461, a critical SQL injection vulnerability affecting Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Secure Email Gateway. The vulnerability has a reported CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.8 and could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges on an affected appliance.Cisco Secure Email G

SHA256 2bedc26d4b29b435c21962beed7db21188a0219a0d28334bba8b4fb1656d7b15

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SHA256 ed082f744f035035900f67edf438f2f7d0528ac501234f63d476d65273cdb9a1

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IP 1.34.200.85

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How dynamic application security testing validates risk at runtime

Security teams already have long queues of potential application vulnerabilities. The useful question is what happens next: can they see how a weakness behaves in a running application, reproduce the attack, and give developers enough evidence to fix it?Dynamic application security testing (DAST) helps answer those questions by testing applications as an attacker encounters them. The IDC MarketSca

Metasploit Wrap Up: Belgian Waffles, Chocolates, and…Modules-Frites?

SMTP is the key: BPFDoor and AVERAT hitting the network edge

OverviewRapid7 tracked a set of Linux samples that blend into the software and device conventions of the telecom environments they target. The set spans a newly observed BPFDoor variant, a BPF Rekoobe build seen against South Korean targets, a dropper, and six builds of a Linux implant we track as AVERAT, deployed against Taiwanese appliances. Additionally, we provide source code details of the Ra

Metasploit Wrap Up: This One Goes to Sixteen!

This One Goes to Sixteen!Another banger from Metasploit with sixteen new modules, including ten exploit modules, with five on the CISA KEV list. Cisco, Papercut, Sonicwall, Jetbrains, and Langflow all have exploit modules, and not to be outdone, we even have a Metasploit scanner to watch the watchers!New module content (16)Elasticsearch ingest-attachment Apache Tika XFA XXE Local File ReadAuthors:

The Fraud Ecosystem: A Transition From Known Marketplaces to a Fragmented Environment

IntroductionThe surge in emerging threat actors directly correlates with the rapid escalation of victim counts and stolen financial resources. Simultaneously, this growth has spurred the proliferation of specialized supply storefronts across social media platforms, dark web channels, and various smaller niche marketplaces. Security teams today face evolving challenges, requiring them to continuous

IP 149.104.78.208

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Credentialed Pre-Port Discovery: Don't Probe the Host, Ask it

If your scan engine already holds credentials for a host, it can ask that host which ports are open instead of probing for them.Every scan begins with the same question: which ports on this host are open? Everything after it, from identifying services to checking for vulnerabilities to evaluating policy, depends on the answer being right. The traditional answer comes from the outside: the scan eng

SHA256 7e667ba5f9df912e02275d3cfe3809d16f822fe776f4035c84b118ebd925b1b5

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Four Compliance Frameworks, One Security Team. How Universities Can Stop Drowning in Regulatory Risk

Most industries manage one major compliance framework. Universities might manage four simultaneously, each bringing with it unique requirements, enforcement mechanisms, and consequences for failure. Here's what that actually looks like in practice.In Part 1 of this series, we laid out the scale of the threat facing higher education: 4,388 cyberattacks per organization per week, a 24% year-over-yea

The ASOS Incident: When Attackers Use the Channels Customers Trust

This week, ASOS customers opened their phones to find a hostile push notification delivered through the retailer’s own app. The message claimed the company’s Snowflake environment had been compromised and directed ASOS to engage with the sender through Telegram. ASOS later confirmed to Sky News that an unauthorized customer notification had been sent and said it was investigating activity involvin