Posts tagged Metasploit

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Exploiting Macros via Email with Metasploit Pro Social Engineering

Currently, phishing is seen as one of the largest infiltration points for businesses around the globe, but there is more to social engineering than just phishing. Attackers may use email and USB keys to deliver malicious files to users in the hopes of gaining access to an organization's network. Users that are likely unaware that unsolicited files, such as a Microsoft Word document with a macro, may be malicious and can be a major risk to an organization. Metasploit Pro [https://www.rapid7.com/

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Metasploit's RF Transceiver Capabilities

The rise of the Internet of Things We spend a lot of time monitoring our corporate networks. We have many tools to detect strange behaviors. We scan for vulnerabilities. We measure our exposure constantly. However, we often fail to recognize the small (and sometimes big) Internet of Things (IoT) devices that are all around our network, employees, and employees' homes. Somewhat alarmingly – considering their pervasiveness — these devices aren't always the easiest to test. Though often difficult,

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Metasploit, Google Summer of Code, and You!

Spend the summer with Metasploit I'm proud to announce that the Metasploit Project has been accepted as a mentor organization in the Google Summer of Code! For those unfamiliar with the program, their about page [https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/about/] sums it up nicely: > Google Summer of Code is a global program focused on introducing students to open source software development. Students work on a 3 month programming project with an open source organization during their break from univer

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Pen Testing Cars with Metasploit and Particle.io Photon Boards

TL;DR This post details how to use the MSFRelay library for Photon boards to write your own Metasploit [https://rapid7.com/products/metasploit/] compatible firmware. Specifically for an add-on called Carloop. If you have a Carloop and just want it to work with Metasploit without having to write any code (or read this) then I've also provided the full code as a library example in the Particle library and can be found here [https://build.particle.io/libs/spark-msf-relay/0.0.1/tab/example/msf-carlo

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Metasploit Weekly Wrapup: March 10, 2017

The last couple of weeks in the infosec world have appeared busier, and buzzier, than most others.  It seems almost futile to pry everyone away from the current drama--that being the bombshell revelation that intelligence agencies collect intelligence--long enough to have them read our dev blog.  Regardless, we've been busy ourselves.  And if you're the least bit like me, you could probably use a quick respite from the cacophony.  Keeping up with all the noise is enough to make anyone feel lik

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Weekly Metasploit Wrapup: 2/23/17

I gave at the office The office can be a popular place when it comes to giving. From selling kids' cookies/candy to raising awareness for a charity, the opportunity to 'give at the office' is definitely a thing. And now, thanks to Office macros, Metasploit offers a new way to give (and receive!) at 'the Office'. These days, using malicious macros in office productivity programs is still a common attack vector. Designed with a handful of word-processing programs in mind (including some open sour

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Metasploitable3 CTF Results and Wrap-Up

The Metasploitable3 CTF competition [https://www.rapid7.com/blog/post/2016/12/07/metasploitable3-capture-the-flags-competition/] has wrapped up and we have our winners!  We had almost 300 flag submissions from more than 50 fine folks.  There were some really great right-ups submitted with great details on how flags were found.  Thanks to everyone who took time to submit a finding!  ON TO THE RESULTS! When we announced the competition, we didn't specify if team submissions were allowed or not. 

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Metasploitable3 CTF Competition: Update and Leaderboard!

The Metasploitable3 [/2016/11/15/test-your-might-with-the-shiny-new-metasploitable3] Capture The Flag Competition [/2016/12/07/metasploitable3-capture-the-flags-competition] has been underway for about a week now and the submissions have been pouring in!  We're very excited to see so many great submissions. We're reviewing as fast as we can so if you don't hear back from us right away, don't worry, you will.  For all valid submissions we will update this blog post and subsequent ones with the le

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Metasploitable3 Capture the Flag Competition

UPDATE: Leaderboard can be found on this new post [/2016/12/14/metasploitable3-ctf-competition-update]! Plus, some notes that may be helpful. Exciting news! Rapid7 is hosting a month-long, world-wide capture the flag(s) competition! Rapid7 recently released Metasploitable3 [https://github.com/rapid7/metasploitable3], the latest version of our attackable, vulnerable environment designed to help security professionals, students, and researchers alike hone their skills and practice their craft. I

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Metasploitable3: An Intentionally Vulnerable Machine for Exploit Testing

Test Your Might With The Shiny New Metasploitable3 Today I am excited to announce the debut of our shiny new toy - Metasploitable3 [https://github.com/rapid7/metasploitable3]. Metasploitable3 is a free virtual machine that allows you to simulate attacks largely using Metasploit [https://www.rapid7.com/products/metasploit/?CS=blog]. It has been used by people in the security industry for a variety of reasons: such as training for network exploitation, exploit development, software testing, techn

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Important Security Fixes in Metasploit 4.12.0-2016091401

A number of important security issues were resolved in Metasploit (Pro, Express, and Community editions) this week. Please update [https://community.rapid7.com/docs/DOC-3521] as soon as possible. Issue 1: Localhost restriction bypass (affects versions 4.12.0-2016061501 through 4.12.0-2016083001) On initial install, the Metasploit web interface displays a page for setting up an initial administrative user. After this initial user is configured, you can login and use the Metasploit web UI for th

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Metasploit Weekly Wrapup: Aug. 12, 2016

Las Vegas 2016 is in The Books This week's wrap-up actually covers two weeks thanks in large part to the yearly pilgrimage to Las Vegas.  I myself elected not to attend, but I'm told everyone had a great time.  Many on the team are still recuperating, but I'd wager that they all enjoyed seeing you there as well.  Here's to everyone's speedy recovery. Centreon Web UserAlias Command Execution Our first new module this go-around exploits a remote command execution vulnerability in Centreon Web via

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Pentesting in the Real World: Going Bananas with MongoDB

This is the 4th in a series of blog topics by penetration testers, for penetration testers, highlighting some of the advanced pentesting techniques they'll be teaching in our new Network Assault and Application Assault certifications, opening for registration this week. For more information, check out the training page at www.rapid7.com/services/training-certification/penetration-testing-training.jsp [http://www.rapid7.com/services/training-certification/penetration-testing-training.jsp] Prefa

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Pentesting in the Real World: Gathering the Right Intel

This is the first in a series of blog topics by penetration testers, for penetration testers, highlighting some of the advanced pentesting techniques they'll be teaching in our new Network Assault and Application Assault certifications, opening for registration this week. For more information, check out the training page at www.rapid7.com/services/training-certification/penetration-testing-training.jsp [http://www.rapid7.com/services/training-certification/penetration-testing-training.jsp] So

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Announcement: End-of-Life Metasploit 32-Bit Versions

UPDATE: With the release of version 4.15 on July 19, 2017, commercial Metasploit 32-bit platforms (Metasploit Pro, Metasploit Express, and Metasploit Community) no longer receive future product or content updates. These platforms are now obsolete and are no longer supported. Rapid7 announced the end of life of Metasploit Pro 32-bit versions for both Windows and Linux operating systems on July 5th, 2017.  This announcement applies to all editions: Metasploit Pro, Metasploit Express and Metasploi