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DeepSeek under fire: 50% of malicious code produced on sensitive queries
Specialists at CrowdStrike conducted a series of experiments with the Chinese artificial intelligence system DeepSeek, testing its code generation based...
Redazione RHC - 20 September 2025
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Russian influence network CopyCop creates over 300 websites to spread disinformation
Since March 2025, Insikt Group of Recorded Future observed CopyCop (also known as Storm-1516), a covert Russian influence network, creating...
Redazione RHC - 20 September 2025
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A former CIA agent sold state secrets for personal gain
Former CIA agent Dale Britt Bandler is at the center of a high-profile criminal case: he used his access to...
Redazione RHC - 20 September 2025
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Microsoft launches its “AI factory”: the most powerful supercomputer ever built.
Microsoft has unveiled a new generation of data centers designed specifically for artificial intelligence. The flagship facility is called Microsoft...
Redazione RHC - 19 September 2025
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Critical vulnerability in Microsoft Login ID: risk of total takeover
Microsoft has closed a critical bug that could have severely compromised its cloud environments: Dutch researcher Dirk-Jan Mollema discovered two...
Redazione RHC - 19 September 2025
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Will you soon be fired? AI surpasses humans in the Coding Olympics.
Google DeepMind and OpenAI's artificial intelligence have achieved gold-level results in a competition dubbed the "Programming Olympics." The companies' models...
Redazione RHC - 19 September 2025
A study shows a shocking truth: 98.5% of passwords are weak!
In a new analysis based on 10 million compromised passwords, Specops has demonstrated how vulnerable corporate networks remain to human error. All passwords were extracted from a list of over...
Operation Eastwood: Pro-Russian hacker group NoName057(16) dismantled
As part of the investigations conducted by the Rome Public Prosecutor's Office and coordinated by the National Anti-Mafia and Anti-Terrorism Directorate, the Postal Police has completed important investigative activities in...
What is Doxing and How Can It Change Your Online Life?
Doxing (short for "dropping dox," sometimes written as Doxxing) is the act of revealing personal information about someone online, such as their real name, home address, workplace, phone number, financial...
What are Botnets? A Journey Through Malware, Cyber Threat Intelligence, and OSINT
The Internet provides a sea of information. We often talk on RHC about Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) and Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI), i.e. those intelligence disciplines that deal with the...
Cloudflare: DDoS attacks decline in Q2 2025, but extreme attacks increase
Cloudflare recorded a sharp decline in DDoS attacks in the second quarter of 2025, blocking 7.3 million attacks, compared to the 20.5 million reported in the first quarter. Despite the...
What is an Advanced Persistent Threat (APT). A journey through malicious actors and state-sponsored hackers.
Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) are malicious actors that operate in the shadows of the internet, conducting highly sophisticated and targeted attacks. These groups, often associated with nation-states, pose a significant...
What are Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks and how can we protect ourselves from them?
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are one of the most common threats to websites, servers, and other online infrastructure. Specifically, this type of attack attempts to overwhelm target servers...
The Inconvenient Truth About Work and AI: 99% Fight, 1% Win
On July 11, local time, it was revealed that Google DeepMind had successfully "recruited" the core team of AI startup Windsurf. Not long before, OpenAI was negotiating a $3 billion...
Hackers use ClickFix and FileFix to spread the Interlock Trojan
The Interlock ransomware hacker group is distributing a remote access trojan (RAT) through compromised websites. Hackers use FileFix attacks to spread the malware. ClickFix attacks rely on social engineering. Several...
Discovering Scattered Spider: The Criminal Threat Using Advanced Tactics and Techniques
By Cyber Defense Center Maticmind (Andrea Mariucci, Riccardo Michetti, Federico Savastano, Ada Spinelli) The Scattered Spider threat actor, UNC9344, made its appearance in 2022 with two targeted attacks on Caesars...
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