How Rapid7 is Bringing Cyber GRC Closer To Security Operations Back to Blog Security Operations How Rapid7 is bringing Cyber GRC closer to security operations Sabeen Malik May 8, 2026 | Last updated on May 12, 2026 | xx min read DISCOVER RAPID7 MDR Sabeen Malik is VP, Global Government Affairs and Public Policy at Rapid7. ⠀ Security teams need a better way to connect what they detect, what they fix, and what they can prove. The pace of modern security operations no longer works in defenders’ favor.

Metasploit Wrap-Up 05/08/2026 Back to Blog Products and Tools Metasploit Wrap-Up 05/08/2026 Alan David Foster May 8, 2026 | Last updated on May 8, 2026 | xx min read Spring cleanup This week’s Metasploit updates focused on foundational improvements and expanded target reach. Key enhancements were made to the recently released Copy Fail exploit module, which now benefits from payload fixes in linux/x64/exec and linux/armle/exec. These changes expand its capability, enabling the use of the cmd/unix/python/meterpreter/reverse_tcp payload on x64 targets and introducing support for ARMLE Linux.

Rapid7 and OpenAI: Advancing AI For Preemptive Security Back to Blog Artificial Intelligence Rapid7 and OpenAI: Helping Defenders Move at Machine Speed Wade Woolwine May 7, 2026 | Last updated on May 7, 2026 | xx min read DISCOVER RAPID7 MDR Wade Woolwine is Senior Director, Product Security at Rapid7. Announcing OpenAI's Trusted Access for Cyber program CIOs and CISOs are telling us the same thing in different ways: Advances in frontier AI are accelerating the threat environment and putting pressure on security operating models built for a different pace. Vulnerabilities can be discovered faster, exploitation windows are shrinking, and attackers are increasingly using automation to move with greater speed and scale.

Why Security in 2026 Requires Continuous Threat and Exposure Management (CTEM) at Scale Back to Blog Exposure Management Why Security in 2026 Requires Continuous Threat and Exposure Management (CTEM) at Scale James Davis May 7, 2026 | Last updated on May 7, 2026 | xx min read DISCOVER RAPID7 CTEM Let's be honest, the patching window just shrank to something no practitioner or organization can keep up with. Organizations now need to operate in an environment that must assume breach, which means fundamentals like attack surface management, micro-segmentation, identity management, and attack path validation – aka a few core pillars of CTEM – just became the most important initiatives within the cybersecurity department. Rapid7 is the only vendor that provides a truly unified platform to master Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) .

Muddying the Tracks: The State-Sponsored Shadow Behind Chaos Ransomware Back to Blog Threat Research Muddying the Tracks: The State-Sponsored Shadow Behind Chaos Ransomware Alexandra Blia | Ivan Feigl May 6, 2026 | Last updated on May 7, 2026 | xx min read DISCOVER RAPID7 MDR Executive summary In early 2026, a sophisticated intrusion initially appearing to be a standard Chaos ransomware attack was assessed to be consistent with a targeted state-sponsored operation. While the threat actor operated under the banner of the Chaos ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group, forensic analysis revealed the incident was a "false flag" masquerade. Technical artifacts, including a specific code-signing certificate and Command-and-Control (C2) infrastructure, suggest with moderate confidence that this activity is linked to MuddyWater (Seedworm), an Iranian Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) affiliated with the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS).

Metasploit Wrap-Up 05/01/2026 Back to Blog Products and Tools Metasploit Wrap-Up 05/01/2026 Christopher Granleese May 1, 2026 | Last updated on May 1, 2026 | xx min read MCP server This release our very own  cdelafuente-r7  finished implementing the Metasploit MCP Server (msfmcpd), bringing Model Context Protocol support to Metasploit Framework. MCP lets AI applications like Claude, Cursor, or your own custom agents query Metasploit data. Think of it as a middleware layer that exposes 8 standardized tools for searching modules and pulling reconnaissance data, all built on the official  Ruby MCP SDK .