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In a dramatic reversal, Nepal has lifted the nationwide social media blackout imposed last week after it sparked massive youth protests and caused at least 19 deaths, according to local media. The dec...
The post-COVID macro political movements, including ongoing conflicts, have prompted a majority of states to shift their medium- to long-term political objectives. Clearly, a paradigm shift has been v...
Salesloft announced that it would temporarily deactivate its AI-powered chatbot Drift on September 5, after several companies were hit by a massive supply chain attack. The incident resulted in the ma...
The Dark Web is a part of the internet that cannot be reached with standard browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Edge). To access it, you need to use specific tools like the Tor Browser, which guarantees anonym...
Artificial intelligence systems have been criticized for creating confusing vulnerability reports and inundating open-source developers with irrelevant complaints. But researchers at Nanjing Universit...
NIST selects second PQC Key Encapsulation algorithm
Paragon Spyware – Let’s talk about privacy and governments
Beyond the Dark Storm’s attack on X: how hacktivism’s Illusion reinforces the System
Babuk Locker 2.0: The New Ransomware Affiliate Program
NightSpire: A New Player in the Ransomware Landscape
Crazyhunter: The Ransomware with the Three-Dimensional Data Annihilation System That Redefines Data Destruction
NIST selects second PQC Key Encapsulation algorithm
Tara Lie - March 18th, 2025
The fourth round of the American National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) competition has selected HQC as a secondary quantum-resilient key encapsulation mechanism (KEM) to...
Paragon Spyware – Let’s talk about privacy and governments
Alessio Stefan - March 18th, 2025
Politics, information technology, and privacy. A triad continually seeking balance with a history of conflict that originates from the introduction of personal computers at the consumer level. Attempts by the...
Beyond the Dark Storm’s attack on X: how hacktivism’s Illusion reinforces the System
Olivia Terragni - March 18th, 2025
The Dark Storm attack on X (formerly Twitter) has been significant for several reasons. The attack on March 10 2025 - a multi-layered Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) using a botnet -...
Babuk Locker 2.0: The New Ransomware Affiliate Program
Pietro Melillo - March 13th, 2025
Babuk, one of the most notorious ransomware groups in cybercrime, has launched the Babuk Locker 2.0 Affiliate Program 2025, an affiliate program for skilled hackers looking to profit from ransomware...
NightSpire: A New Player in the Ransomware Landscape
Pietro Melillo - March 12th, 2025
During our reconnaissance into the underground world and criminal groups conducted by Red Hot Cyber's threat intelligence laboratory DarkLab, we stumbled upon a Data Leak Site of a cyber gang...
Crazyhunter: The Ransomware with the Three-Dimensional Data Annihilation System That Redefines Data Destruction
Pietro Melillo - March 10th, 2025
In the reconnaissance of the world of the underground and criminal groups carried out by Red Hot Cyber's DarkLab threat intelligence lab, we came across a Data Leak Site of...
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