Rapid7 and OpenAI: Helping Defenders Move at Machine Speed

2026-05-08T07:23:54Z7b3b5b82327949fab743d072464c74b34dbe885fc6ed6f86e08b1f8c009b47e9
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What happened

Collection of Rapid7 posts (May 2026) covering product/security strategy and active threats. Key items: Rapid7 joins OpenAI’s Trusted Access for Cyber and argues for Continuous Threat and Exposure Management (CTEM) at scale; a critical, unauthenticated PAN‑OS buffer overflow (CVE-2026-0300) in the User‑ID Authentication (Captive) Portal allows remote root code execution and is confirmed exploited in the wild (CVSSv4 9.3); a forensic report linking a Chaos ransomware incident to a likely MuddyWater (Seedworm) state‑sponsored operation that used interactive Teams social engineering, DWAgent, and

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2026-05-08T07:23:54Z
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