A Day With Your Vector Command Red Team Pod

This collection of Rapid7 blog posts covers operational red teaming, active exploit tooling, and the impact of AI on offensive and defensive security. Key items: Vector Command describes a continuous five-operator red-team pod model; Rapid7 rolled multiple Metasploit updates (including an SMB-to-Meterpreter upgrade via PsExec, a Peyara Remote Mouse 1.0.1 unauthenticated RCE module, a loongarch64 exec payload, and several scanners/exploits such as Next.js middleware bypass, LiteLLM proxy SQLi, Dalfox deserialization RCE, and an Audiobookshelf unauthenticated API auth bypass tied to CVE-2025-252