Why SIEM is Moving Toward Unified Security Operations: Rapid7 Named a Major Player in IDC MarketScape

2026-06-23T19:23:52Z5abb064dce01ac3635e4080245d9791eb9e88cdafacf67033290c9a0d735f60f
AI for securityCVE-2026-41679CVSSDLL side‑loadingDonut shellcodeDropping ElephantIDC MarketScapeIncident CommandMCP pluginMetasploitNIS2NTLM relayPaperclipRCESIEMbehavioral detectionin‑memory RATprivilege escalationscheduled taskthreat intelligencevulnerability management

What happened

A set of Rapid7 blog posts (mid‑June 2026) covering product/market news, offensive tooling updates, threat research, and compliance guidance. Highlights: Rapid7 named a Major Player in the IDC SIEM MarketScape and promoting its Incident Command unified platform; a Metasploit roundup that includes an unauthenticated Paperclip AI RCE (CVE-2026-41679), new NTLM relay local privilege escalation module (windows/local/ntlm_relay_2_self) enabling SYSTEM via LDAP relay, and other exploitation/post‑exploitation modules and enhancements; threat research on the Dropping Elephant campaign that uses DLL‑s­

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