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VUSec researchers have presented a paper titled “Training Solo,” which challenges the fundamental principles of protection against Spectre-v2 attacks. Previously , the domain isolation mec...
Today we’ll meet another hacker from the past. He’s Vladimir Levin, a Russian hacker from St. Petersburg (Владимир Леонидович Левин), who became famous for breaking ...
On September 20, we reported on a cyberattack that paralyzed several European airports, including Brussels, Berlin, and London Heathrow. This was a supply chain attack that exploited the compromise of...
The Romanian penitentiary system has found itself at the center of a major digital scandal: inmates in Târgu Jiu hacked the PNA’s internal platform and, for several months, managed data on pris...
Today, we live in a world where WiFi is a fundamental necessity, but how did this technology, now taken for granted, come about? How did it then develop into the network we now use every day? In this ...
Cloudflare: DDoS attacks decline in Q2 2025, but extreme attacks increase
What is an Advanced Persistent Threat (APT). A journey through malicious actors and state-sponsored hackers.
What are Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks and how can we protect ourselves from them?
The Inconvenient Truth About Work and AI: 99% Fight, 1% Win
Hackers use ClickFix and FileFix to spread the Interlock Trojan
Discovering Scattered Spider: The Criminal Threat Using Advanced Tactics and Techniques
Cloudflare: DDoS attacks decline in Q2 2025, but extreme attacks increase
Redazione RHC - July 16th, 2025
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.
Redazione RHC - July 16th, 2025
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?
Redazione RHC - July 16th, 2025
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
Redazione RHC - July 16th, 2025
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
Redazione RHC - July 16th, 2025
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
Redazione RHC - July 16th, 2025
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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