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RHC interviews ShinyHunters: “Systems can be repaired, but people remain vulnerable!”
ShinyHunters is a group of threat actors that gained notoriety after the massive data breach against Salesforce, an incident that led Google to closely monitor them and assign them the code name UNC62...
The Great Firewall in the Spotlight: The Leak Revealing the Industrialization of Chinese Censorship
Edited by Luca Stivali and Olivia Terragni. On September 11, 2025, what can be defined as the largest leak ever suffered by the Great Firewall of China (GFW) exploded in the media, massively and massi...
OpenAI and Microsoft reach agreement to transform into a public utility company.
OpenAI has entered into a memorandum of understanding with Microsoft to review its partnership, which could lead to the company’s transformation into a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC). If the transfo...
Goodbye PowerShell 2.0 and WMIC! The great Windows 11 cleanup has begun.
Windows 11 users who have installed the September 2025 Update might think that practically nothing changes. At first glance, KB5065426 looks like a normal small patch that Microsoft distributes to eve...
Looking for Volodymyr Tymoshchuk! 11 million dollars for the Nefilim hacker
The U.S. Department of Justice has indicted Ukrainian Volodymyr Tymoshchuk on seven counts of computer hacking and extortion. He is considered one of the most dangerous hackers of recent years. The in...
In Nepal, people are dying for social media! 19 people lost their lives trying to get Facebook back
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...
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...
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ShinyHunters is a group of threat actors that gained notoriety after the massive data breach against Salesforce, an incident that led Google to closely monitor them and assign them the code name UNC62...

Edited by Luca Stivali and Olivia Terragni. On September 11, 2025, what can be defined as the largest leak ever suffered by the Great Firewall of China (GFW) exploded in the media, massively and massi...

OpenAI has entered into a memorandum of understanding with Microsoft to review its partnership, which could lead to the company’s transformation into a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC). If the trans...

Windows 11 users who have installed the September 2025 Update might think that practically nothing changes. At first glance, KB5065426 looks like a normal small patch that Microsoft distributes to eve...

The U.S. Department of Justice has indicted Ukrainian Volodymyr Tymoshchuk on seven counts of computer hacking and extortion. He is considered one of the most dangerous hackers of recent years. The in...
Why privacy does not exist.
Electronic warfare (EW) between the USA, China, South and North Korea (part two)
North Korea’s cyberwarfare and its cyber army (part one)
Making the cyber world a safer and better place: an interview with W1ntermute
Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage, pioneers of programmable computing
Dharma/Crysis: Overview and adversary tracking

Why privacy does not exist.
Redazione RHC - December 18th, 2021
Author Massimiliano Brolli Translation: Vincenzo Marcovecchio Pubblication date: 18/12/2021 Privacy, privacy, privacy, ... privacy comes first. How many times have we heard this sentence? Yes, because we talk a lot...
Electronic warfare (EW) between the USA, China, South and North Korea (part two)
Olivia Terragni - December 17th, 2021
Author: Olivia TerragniPubblication Date: 13/12/2021 Given that North Korean cyberattacks are not a future threat, but already a FACT, we are already wondering how to deal with the election of...

North Korea’s cyberwarfare and its cyber army (part one)
Olivia Terragni - December 17th, 2021
Author: Olivia Terragni Pubblication date: 13/12/2021 During the night, only one bright spot lights up in North Korea: the city of Pyongyang. Perhaps, due to the dark that surrounds it,...

Making the cyber world a safer and better place: an interview with W1ntermute
Olivia Terragni - November 12th, 2021
Author: Olivia terragni Pubblication Date: 11/11/2021 W1ntermute aka Sofya Ivanov is a woman who works in the cybersecurity industry as a network security analyst and open-source intelligence (OSINT) specialist. This...

Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage, pioneers of programmable computing
Antonio Piovesan - October 4th, 2021
Author: Antonio Piovesan Pubblication date: 28/09/2021 Introduction - Age of machines Great Britain, middle decades of the 19th century, times of unprecedented engineering ambitions. Engineering, transportation, communications, architecture, science and...

Dharma/Crysis: Overview and adversary tracking
Emanuele De Lucia - September 17th, 2021
Author: Emanuele De Lucia Pubblication date: 17/09/2021 This report presents an overview about Dharma/Crysis ransomware. This piece of malware is often observed as late-stage payload in attacks against internet-facing systems,...
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