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Xi Jinping and the Chinese APT’s Ambition
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 Cyber Attack: Chatbot Drift Temporarily Disabled
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...
Discover the Dark Web: Access, Secrets, and Helpful Links to the Onion Network
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...
AI A2 detected 102 0-day bugs and created exploits in Android apps for $1.77
Artificial intelligence systems have been criticized for creating confusing vulnerability reports and inundating open-source developers with irrelevant complaints. But researchers at Nanjing Universit...
$16 billion in stolen Apple, Meta, and Google credentials up for sale for $121,000
The Darklab team, Red Hot Cyber‘s community of threat intelligence experts, has identified an ad on the dark web marketplace “Tor Amazon”, the criminal counterpart of the popular e-commerce site on th...
Red Hot Cyber Conference 2026: Sponsorships Open for the Fifth Edition in Rome
The Red Hot Cyber Conference has become a regular event for the Red Hot Cyber community and for anyone working in or interested in the world of digital technologies and cybersecurity. The fifth editio...
Hexstrike AI unleashes chaos! Zero-days exploited in record time
The release of Hexstrike-AI marks a turning point in the cybersecurity landscape. The framework, billed as a next-generation tool for red teams and researchers, is capable of orchestrating over 150 sp...
LockBit 5.0: Signs of a New and Possible “Rebirth”?
LockBit represents one of the longest-running and most structured ransomware gangs of recent years, with a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) model that has profoundly impacted the criminal ecosystem. Fol...
The KING of DDoS! Cloudflare blocks a monstrous 11.5 terabit-per-second attack.
The record for the largest DDoS attack ever recorded in June 2025 has already been broken. Cloudflare said it recently blocked the largest DDoS attack in history, which peaked at 11.5 Tbps. “Cloudflar...
Palo Alto Networks Also Compromised via Salesforce and Drift
In early September 2025, Palo Alto Networks confirmed it had been the victim of a data breach. The compromise did not affect its core products or services, but rather some internally used Salesforce i...
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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...

The Darklab team, Red Hot Cyber‘s community of threat intelligence experts, has identified an ad on the dark web marketplace “Tor Amazon”, the criminal counterpart of the popular e-commerce site...
WhiteHouse.gov Data Breach: Threat Actors Leak Sensitive Information!
RHC interviews Qilin Ransomware! “Let’s play fair and wait for a worthy opponent on the field”
Navigating the future: a dialogue on human resilience and preservation
Cryptography at Risk: MIT develops a Quantum Algorithm to crack RSA.
Interview with Cesare Mencarini. A 17-year-old hacker who created a nuclear reactor in college
Arrest of Pavel Durov: Telegram Founder Detained in Paris

WhiteHouse.gov Data Breach: Threat Actors Leak Sensitive Information!
Redazione RHC - September 21st, 2024
Recently, a threat actor on a dark web forum has posted a claim regarding an alleged data breach involving WhiteHouse.gov. The post, made by a user named "l33tfg," asserts that...

RHC interviews Qilin Ransomware! “Let’s play fair and wait for a worthy opponent on the field”
RHC Dark Lab - September 19th, 2024
Qilin (from Chinese :麒麟) is a legendary creature that appears in Chinese mythology and is said to appear with the imminent arrival or demise of a sage or illustrious ruler....

Navigating the future: a dialogue on human resilience and preservation
Alessandro Rugolo - September 5th, 2024
Participants: NewPlato: A contemporary philosopher seeking to understand the nature of human civilization and its future. NewSocrates: A wise mentor exploring the implications of population growth, technological advancements, and the...

Cryptography at Risk: MIT develops a Quantum Algorithm to crack RSA.
Tara Lie - August 27th, 2024
Modern encryption methods, such as RSA, are based on the fact that even the most powerful classical computers are not able to quickly decompose a large number into prime factors....

Interview with Cesare Mencarini. A 17-year-old hacker who created a nuclear reactor in college
Massimiliano Brolli - August 26th, 2024
Today we bring you an interview with Cesare Mencarini, a young man who, at just 17 years old, with uncommon determination and intelligence, built a nuclear fusion reactor as a...

Arrest of Pavel Durov: Telegram Founder Detained in Paris
Pietro Melillo - August 25th, 2024
On August 24, 2024, French authorities arrested Pavel Durov, the founder and CEO of Telegram, at Le Bourget Airport. Durov, a 39-year-old Franco-Russian citizen, had just arrived from Azerbaijan on...
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