Why SIEM is Moving Toward Unified Security Operations: Rapid7 Named a Major Player in IDC MarketScape
2026-06-24T19:23:56Z•3a50b92bced385e7f2549f58696b1b84a2f4bb36d297ae062f1fa7fde99936a2
AI-assistCVE-2026-41679DLL side-loadingDonut shellcodeDropping ElephantFondue.exeIOC vs behaviorIncident CommandMCP serverMetasploitNIS2 compliance guidance','vulnerability management','CVSS','AI-NTLM relayPaperclipPsExecRATRCES4U2ProxySIEMSOARShadow Credentialsattack surface managementdetection evasionmemory-resident malwareprivilege escalationscheduled task persistence
What happened
Collection of Rapid7 blog posts (June 2026) covering: a Metasploit update that adds five new modules including an unauthenticated full RCE chain for Paperclip AI (CVE-2026-41679) and a Windows NTLM relay local privilege escalation module that abuses OpenEncryptedFileRaw/WebDAV to relay to a DC and obtain SYSTEM via S4U2Proxy/Shadow Credentials; an upstream MCP server integration to let AI assist msfconsole operators; Rapid7 threat research on the “Dropping Elephant” campaign delivering an in-memory RAT via a China-themed decoy, using DLL side‑loading of a legitimate Microsoft binary (Fondue.EX
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