The Phone is Listening: A Cold War–Style Vulnerability in Modern VoIP

I don’t know about you, but when I think about “critical vulnerabilities,” I usually picture ransomware, data theft, or maybe a server falling over...

CVE-2026-2329: Critical Unauthenticated Stack Buffer Overflow in Grandstream GXP1600 VoIP Phones (FIXED)

OverviewRapid7 Labs conducted a zero-day research project against the Grandstream GXP1600 series of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) phones. This research resulted in the...

Metasploit Wrap-Up 02/13/2026

SolarWinds Web Help DeskOur very own sfewer-r7 has developed an exploit module for the SolarWinds Web Help Desk vulnerabilities CVE-2025-40536 and CVE-2025-40551. On successful exploitation the...

Carding-as-a-Service: The Underground Market of Stolen Cards

Rapid7 software engineer Eliran Alon also contributed to this post.IntroductionDespite sustained efforts by the global banking and payments industry, credit card fraud continues to...

Patch Tuesday – February 2026

Microsoft is publishing 55 vulnerabilities this February 2026 Patch Tuesday. Microsoft is aware of exploitation in the wild for six of today’s vulnerabilities, and...

Measuring AI Security: Separating Signal from Panic

The conversation around AI security is full of anxiety. Every week, new headlines warn of jailbreaks, prompt injection, agents gone rogue, and the rise...

CVE-2026-1731: Critical Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution in BeyondTrust Remote Support (RS) and Privileged Remote...

OverviewOn February 6, 2026, BeyondTrust released security advisory BT26-02, disclosing a critical pre-authentication Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability affecting its Remote Support (RS) and...

Vulnerability Found in InsightVM & Nexpose: CVE-2026-1814 (FIXED)

We are grateful to the research team at Atredis for sharing their findings around a vulnerability (CVE-2026-1814) impacting our vulnerability management offerings (InsightVM and...

Metasploit Wrap-Up 02/06/2026

Google Summer of Code 2026Our very own Jack Heysel has added some documentation which outlines the Metasploit Framework project ideas for GSoC 2026. For anyone interested...

Chrysalis, Notepad++, and Supply Chain Risk: What it Means, and What to Do Next

When Rapid7 published its analysis of the Chrysalis backdoor linked to a compromise of Notepad++ update infrastructure, it raised understandable questions from customers and...

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CarGurus – 12,461,887 breached accounts

In February 2026, the automotive marketplace CarGurus was the target of a data breach attributed to the threat actor ShinyHunters. Following an attempted extortion,...

Hackers Leveraging Multiple AI Services to Compromise 600+ FortiGate Devices

A financially motivated threat actor exploited various commercial generative AI services to compromise over 600 FortiGate devices across more than 55 countries between January...

Chromium: CVE-2026-2649 Integer overflow in V8

This CVE was assigned by Chrome. Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) ingests Chromium, which addresses this vulnerability. Please see (https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2024 ) for more information. -...