Rapid7 Intelligence Wins the 2026 Péter Szőr Award for Outstanding Research

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Summary by Cyber Security News16 Oct 2026, 15:00 CET

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Some awards you're happy to receive, while others make you stop for a moment. Receiving the 2026 Péter Szőr Award this week at Virus Bulletin in Seville for our research, BPFdoor in Telecom Networks: Sleeper Cells in the Backbone, was of the latter kind. Virus Bulletin created the award to honor Péter's life and work, and it recognizes outstanding technical security research: the rigorous, the deep, and the useful – exactly what he was known for himself.

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