In this blog, the global experts across our Rapid7 Labs and Managed Services teams share real-time vulnerability insights and threat intelligence so that our customers can anticipate and prevent breaches, pinpoint critical threats, and confidently take command of their attack surface.
The Rapid7 Labs team has rounded up statistics and trends that caught their eye throughout the year, spanning ransomware, initial access vectors, common malware strains, notable CVE exploitation, and more.
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- Bouygues Telecom data breach could affect millions of customers
August 8, 2025
French telco giatn Bouygues Telecom has confirmed suffering a cyberattack in which it lost sensitive customer data. In a short announcement published on its website, the company said it detected the attack on August 4, and following an investigation, determined threat actors stole people’s contact details, contract data, civil status data (or company details), and IBAN ...
- Google says UNC6040 hackers stole some of its data following Salesforce breach
August 7, 2025
Cybercriminals known as ShinyHunters (UNC6040) recently broke into Google and stole business customer information from one of its corporate Salesforce instances, the company has confirmed. In a blog post breaking down ShinyHunters’ modus operandi, the company somewhat played down the importance of the incident, noting the miscreants didn’t really grab anything sensitive, or of particular value. Read ...
- An Earth-Shattering Kaboom: Bringing a Physical ICS Penetration Testing Environment to Life
August 6, 2025
Whether it’s in the water we drink, the medicines we take, or the electricity we use to read blog posts on the internet, Industrial Control Systems (ICS) are part of our daily lives. There’s so much that relies on these systems, you’d like to assume they’re engineered and tested to guard against cyberattacks. You’d be wrong. ...
- Taiwan arrests 6 in probe of TSMC chip technology leak
August 6, 2025
Taiwan prosecutors arrested six people suspected of stealing trade secrets from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC), opening an investigation into a potential breach of national security involving a global tech industry linchpin. The chipmaker to Nvidia reported a number of former and current staff to authorities on suspicion they illegally obtained core technology. A total of ...
- Hacker used a voice phishing attack to steal Cisco customers’ personal information
August 5, 2025
A cybercriminal tricked a Cisco representative into granting them access to steal the personal information of Cisco.com users, the company said on Tuesday. Cisco said it discovered the breach on July 24, blaming the incident on a voice phishing or “vishing” call. The hackers accessed and exported “a subset of basic profile information” from the database ...
- Dangerous new Linux malware strikes – thousands of users see passwords, personal info stolen
August 5, 2025
A brand new Linux malware has been found infecting thousands of computers around the world, stealing people’s login credentials, payment information, and browser cookies, security researchers are warning. SentinelLabs and Beazley Security issued a joint report detailing the activities of PXA Stealer, a new Python-based infostealer for the Linux platform. It was first spotted in late ...

