The open-source Metasploit Framework 5.0 has long been used by hackers and security professionals alike to break into systems. Now, this popular system penetration testing platform, which enables ...

Metasploit operators must feed it a parameter with information about the system they want to target. This means the exploit can't be used in an automated manner as a self-spreading worm, but will ...

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.

A Metasploit exploit module has been released for the zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer. The flaw has been exploited in attacks against Japanese targets, and expert think the ...

Security vendor Rapid7 has been helping to lead the open-source Metasploit penetration testing framework project since October 2009, largely focused on software. On Feb. 2, Rapid7 announced a new ...

Rapid7 has acquired Metasploit to bring the open-source project's database of reliable exploits to bear in Rapid7's vulnerability management and penetration testing offerings.

Metasploit also has modules to run a dictionary-based password-guessing attack against most services. Search for _login in the module browser to find these modules. To attack SSH, highlight several ...

HD_Moore: Metasploit was started as a curses-based network game similar to “Overkill”; the idea was that the local network would be represented as a grid and live hosts would show up as points ...

The newest version of the Metasploit Framework, built to be friendlier to Microsoft Windows users, has been released to the public after a rewrite in the Ruby programming language. Metasploit 3.0 ...

The Metasploit Framework itself will continue to be free and open source. The launch of Metasploit Community coincides with the second anniversary of Rapid7’s acquisition of the Metasploit project.