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 you ...

In my first installment in this series on professional hacking tools, we downloaded and installed Metasploit, the exploitation framework. Now, we will begin to explore the Metasploit Framework and ...

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The developers of the Metasploit penetration testing framework have released today a weaponized exploit for the BlueKeep Windows vulnerability. While other security researchers have released defanged ...

HD Moore, one of the developers of the Metasploit pen-testing (and hacking) tool, has posted exploits and detailed instructions on how to attack an iPhone. The information takes hackers -- and the FBI ...

Security product provider Rapid7 has updated its widely used open-source Metasploit exploitation framework, expanding the software so it supports enterprise IT security staff as well as its core ...

Fully functional exploit code for the (still unpatched) Windows SMB v2 vulnerability has been released to the public domain via the freely available Metasploit point-and-click attack tool, raising the ...

An increasing number of threat actors have started relying on the command-and-control (C2) framework Sliver as an open-source alternative to tools such as Metasploit and Cobalt Strike. Security ...