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- July 1st, 2025 - (Posted in Cybercrime and Darknet)
On June 17, 2025, a cyber attack paralyzed Bank Sepah, one of Iran's major financial institutions. The attack was claimed by the Predatory Sparrow group, already known for its destructive operations against Iranian critical infrastructure. In this document there is an in-depth analysis of the Threat Actor Predatory Sparrow, its...

The Story of Open Source: A Success Story of Humankind

Author: Massimiliano Brolli, Pietro CornelioPublishing Date: 11/01/2021 Open source software is so present and integrated into our daily lives today that it would be difficult to think of a world without it. Talking about Linux, Android, Apache, are just some

The History of FreeBSD

We have often talked about Linux and the open source world, Windows and proprietary software and operating systems in general. But starting from the seed of Ken Thompson’s Unix, many operating systems have taken shape over time, and apart from

HoneyPLC: the new honeypot that revolutionizes the defense of industrial plants

Industrial Control Systems (ICS), critical to the operation of critical infrastructure such as power, water and transportation networks, are increasingly vulnerable to cyberattacks. In this context, the article HoneyPLC: A Next-Generation Honeypot for Industrial Control Systemse proposes an advanced and

Linux Pwned! Privilege Escalation on SUDO in 5 seconds. HackerHood tests the CVE-2025-32463 exploit

- July 2nd, 2025

Yesterday, Red Hot Cyber published an in-depth analysis of a gserious vulnerability discovered in SUDO (CVE-2025-32463), which allows escalation of privileges to root in Linux environments by exploiting an abuse...

  

North Korean Hackers on the Payroll: How Companies Paid Salaries to North Korean IT Specialists

- July 2nd, 2025

The US Department of Justice has announced the discovery ofa large-scale scheme in which fake IT specialists from the DPRK obtained jobs at American companies by posing as citizens of...

  

The Story of Open Source: A Success Story of Humankind

- July 2nd, 2025

Author: Massimiliano Brolli, Pietro CornelioPublishing Date: 11/01/2021 Open source software is so present and integrated into our daily lives today that it would be difficult to think of a world...

  

Do you really know what Hacktivism means? It’s a “special message of hope!”

- July 2nd, 2025

“Hacktivism, a special message of hope." Thus begins the "Hacktivism Declaration", published on July 4, 2001 by the famous hacker group Cult of the dead Cow (also called cDc or...

  

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