Posts by Chris Boyd

5 min Detection and Response

Password Spray Attacks Taking Advantage of Lax MFA

In the first quarter of 2025, Rapid7’s Managed Threat Hunting team observed a significant volume of brute-force password attempts leveraging FastHTTP, a high-performance HTTP server and client library for Go, to automate unauthorized logins via HTTP requests.

11 min Research

2025 Ransomware: Business as Usual, Business is Booming

Rapid7 Labs took a look at internal and publicly-available ransomware data for Q1 2025 and added our own insights to provide a picture of the year thus far—and what you can do now to reduce your attack surface against ransomware.

3 min Research

Fake BianLian Ransomware Letters in Circulation

On March 5, the FBI issued an alert regarding a mail scam targeting U.S. business executives with extortion. The letters claim to be from noted ransomware group BianLian, demanding a payment in Bitcoin ranging from $250,000 to $500,000 within ten days of receipt.

5 min Research

How To Protect Your Organization's Bluesky Account From Security Threats

This blog explains how to secure your Bluesky account from security threats such as malware and phishing, as well as establishing your identity to help prevent fraud and impersonation.

9 min Research

Perfect Fit or Business Threat? How to Mitigate the Risk of Rogue Employees

Recruitment fraud is an expensive and time-consuming threat to business. The risk of malware deployment and data exfiltration is high from threat actors trained to bypass each stage of a typical recruitment process. This blog outlines how an organization can secure the hiring process weak points.