Gopan Sivasankaran is Regional Director, Middle East & Africa, at Rapid7 From AI adoption and cloud-first strategies to smart cities and critical infrastructure modernization, organizations across the United Arab Emirates…
Blake McDermott is Senior Threat Hunter at Rapid7. Every week, threat hunt teams are faced with a steady flow of blogs, advisories, and DFIR reports containing valuable intelligence about adversary…
Introduction The underground market for criminally oriented generative AI has moved beyond the early hype surrounding ‘malicious chatbots.’ The gradual integration of AI as a productivity layer within cybercrime operations…
Overview On June 10, 2026, Oracle published a security alert for CVE-2026-35273, a critical vulnerability in the Updates Environment Management component of PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools. Oracle released an out-of-band patch…
Security leaders rarely struggle to gather data, but they often struggle to turn that data into something clear and meaningful for the business. In a typical week, a CISO might…
More AI, more software, more bugs! AI, it’s all you hear about nowadays and everyone’s got an opinion on it. Here at Metasploit, we care less about those opinions and…
If your organization operates in the EU, or works with organizations that do, NIS2 is no longer something on the horizon. It is here and it applies to a far…
The NIS2 directive asks covered organizations to take a more structured approach to risk management, governance, supply chain security, and incident reporting. It expands the scope of who may be…
Executive summary Rapid7 researchers have identified a sophisticated malware campaign attributed to the threat actor “Dropping Elephant,” characterized by the use of a China-themed decoy document to deliver a heavily…
The shift toward preemptive security is underway, but most organizations are still navigating the realities of limited resources, fragmented tools, and emerging AI risk. At Rapid7’s recent Global Security Summit,…
