Claim

Metasploit OPERATED_BY Rapid7

After Rapid7 acquired Metasploit, a Rapid7 team worked on it full time and commercialized a professional version while keeping the framework open source.

Episode: EP 114 — HD
Origin: Explicit
Confidence: 97% (extractor score, not a fact score)
Speaker: HD Moore
Attributed source: —
Validation: Direction flagged OPERATED_BY does not allow tool → organisation

Transcript evidence

“Even now, there’s a whole team at Rapid7 working on Metasploit full time.”

HD Moore · offsets 70561–70634

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Extraction provenance

Model gpt-5.6-luna · prompt 1.5.19 · schema 1.5.19 · 2026-09-13T07:32:59.834729+00:00

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