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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...
RHC interviews Vanir Group. Former affiliates of LockBit, Karakurt and Knight united to extort money: ‘Hire professionals, don’t be cheap’
End of an Era: SiegedSec, the Hacker Group, Announces Its Dissolution
Alleged Data Breach of the United States Department of Defense and National Security Agency
New Ransomware Group “Vanir Group”: Three Victims Immediately in Their Data Leak Site
Meow ransomware claims attack in its Data Leak Site at HPE giant
The Threat Actor 888 claimed a compromise against Microsoft

RHC interviews Vanir Group. Former affiliates of LockBit, Karakurt and Knight united to extort money: ‘Hire professionals, don’t be cheap’
RHC Dark Lab - July 12th, 2024
New threat actors often emerge every day to destabilize the digital foundations of organizations around the world. One of the most recent and disturbing cybergangs uncovered by Darklab of Red...

End of an Era: SiegedSec, the Hacker Group, Announces Its Dissolution
Pietro Melillo - July 11th, 2024
The cybercriminal group SiegedSec, which gained notoriety during Russia's invasion of Ukraine, has recently announced its dissolution. This group, led by "YourAnonWolf," quickly consolidated its power by increasing the number...

Alleged Data Breach of the United States Department of Defense and National Security Agency
Pietro Melillo - July 11th, 2024
Recently, alarming news has emerged on a well-known underground forum regarding alleged data breaches of the United States Department of Defense and the National Security Agency (NSA). The announcements, posted...

New Ransomware Group “Vanir Group”: Three Victims Immediately in Their Data Leak Site
Pietro Melillo - July 10th, 2024
A new ransomware group, calling themselves "Vanir Group," has recently made its debut in the cybercrime landscape. This group has quickly garnered attention for the aggressiveness and professionalism of their...

Meow ransomware claims attack in its Data Leak Site at HPE giant
Pietro Melillo - July 10th, 2024
Introduction Today, the ransomware gang known as Meow has claimed responsibility for a cyberattack on the multinational giant Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). The claim was published on their Data Leak...

The Threat Actor 888 claimed a compromise against Microsoft
Pietro Melillo - July 10th, 2024
On July 9, 2024, a user known as "888" posted on BreachForums claiming to have leaked sensitive data of Microsoft employees. This alleged breach has exposed personal information of 2,073...
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