Bleeping Computer

Metasploit 6.2.0 improves credential theft, SMB support features, more

Metasploit 6.2.0 has been released with 138 new modules, 148 new improvements/features, and 156 bug fixes since version 6.1.0 was released in August 2021. Metasploit is a penetration testing framework ...
Fox2Now St. Louis

Metasploit Command & Control Featured on Kasm Workspaces

Penetration Testing Command & Control in a Kasm Workspaces for Covert Communication Channel via Reverse Shell over ngrok for Meterpreter Session. MCLEAN, VA, USA ...
ZDNet

Cobalt Strike and Metasploit accounted for a quarter of all malware C&C servers in 2020

Cobalt Strike and Metasploit, two penetration testing toolkits usually employed by security researchers, have been used to host more than a quarter of all the malware command and control (C&C) servers ...
Bleeping Computer

New GZipDe Malware Drops Metasploit Backdoor

Security researchers from AlienVault have discovered a new malware strain named GZipDe that appears to be part of a targeted attack —most likely a cyber-espionage campaign. Researchers discovered this ...
ZDNet

Metasploit team releases BlueKeep exploit

The developers of the Metasploit penetration testing framework have released today a weaponized exploit for the BlueKeep Windows vulnerability. While other security researchers have released defanged ...
Dark Reading

Expired Redis Service Abused to Use Metasploit Meterpreter Maliciously

Attackers are using an 8-year-old version of the Redis open-source database server to maliciously use Metasploit's Meterpreter module to expose exploits within a system, potentially allowing for ...
Dark Reading

Metasploit Hacking Tool Site Hacked But Not 'Owned'

An attack this week targeting the Metasploit Website redirected visitors to a phony page proclaiming the hack -- but the hacking tool site’s servers remained intact. HD Moore, creator of Metasploit ...