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Intel releases urgent patches for new Spectre variant
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...
Famous hackers: Vladimir Levin and the first online bank robbery.
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 into the servers of the...
Cyber Attack on European Airports: Everest Ransomware Claims Claim
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...
Inmates hack prison: sentences reduced, funds transferred, and unauthorized visits
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 priso...
WiFi: From Marconi’s Origins to the Wireless Network We Know Today
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 ...
Operation SIMCARTEL: 1,200 SIM boxes and 40,000 SIM cards stopped by Europol
On October 10, 2025, Latvian authorities conducted a day of action that resulted in the arrest of five Latvian citizens suspected of running a large-scale cyber fraud network. The operation, dubbed SI...
Nvidia loses 95% of the Chinese AI market! Export restrictions cause its share to plummet
Jen-Hsun Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia, revealed that recent export restrictions have drastically reduced the presence of the company’s AI chips in China , from 95% to virtually nothing. “Four year...
Cyberdrones, radar evasion, and autonomous swarms: Rome, the invisible challenge of Jubilee 2025
Jubilee 2025 in Rome presents a challenge not only for managing millions of pilgrims and tourists, but also for protecting urban airspace. Drones, increasingly widespread and accessible, bring with th...
Bus becomes travelling museum of retro computers in UK
In the UK, father and son Jason and Luke Stoner have transformed an old school bus into a traveling museum dedicated to retro computers and game consoles. The inspiration came when Luke visited the fa...
100 years of Italian Intelligence! Mattarella celebrates the SIM’s centenary at the Quirinale Palace
October 15, 2025 marks an anniversary of exceptional importance in the history of Italian national security: one hundred years since the birth of the Military Information Service (SIM) , the country&#...
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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 ...
RCE 0day Exploit for WinRAR and WinZIP for Sale on Exploit.in for Scam Phishing Emails
What was the first ransomware in history? Discovering Trojan AIDS
Creeper & Reaper: The story of the first worm and the first antivirus software.
Businesses are going bankrupt due to ransomware. Small and medium-sized businesses, beware!
What is ransomware? Let’s explore how RaaS works and what it means.
The Shellter Elite suite used by Red Teams to bypass EDRs is now being used by cybercrime

RCE 0day Exploit for WinRAR and WinZIP for Sale on Exploit.in for Scam Phishing Emails
Redazione RHC - July 10th, 2025
Recently, the popular underground forum exploit.in, currently closed and accessible by invitation only, has been offering exploits for a 0day vulnerability affecting the well-known WinRAR and WinZIP programs. The ad,...

What was the first ransomware in history? Discovering Trojan AIDS
Redazione RHC - July 9th, 2025
We often talk about ransomware on Red Hot Cyber and criminal cyber gangs. But who invented this dangerous cyber blackmail "weapon"? Today, ransomware attacks have become familiar to most people,...

Creeper & Reaper: The story of the first worm and the first antivirus software.
Redazione RHC - July 9th, 2025
It's not uncommon to find references to information technology innovations in video games. Ada Lovelace (the first programmer in history), gave her name to the robot in Folsom 4, but...

Businesses are going bankrupt due to ransomware. Small and medium-sized businesses, beware!
Redazione RHC - July 9th, 2025
Very often on RHC, we talk about cyber attacks and ransomware. But this time, we want to go further. We want to talk about the companies that didn't make it,...

What is ransomware? Let’s explore how RaaS works and what it means.
Redazione RHC - July 9th, 2025
Many people often want to understand the ransomware phenomenon precisely, its meaning, the methods of violation, and the crime that revolves around it, struggling to find information scattered across thousands...

The Shellter Elite suite used by Red Teams to bypass EDRs is now being used by cybercrime
Redazione RHC - July 9th, 2025
Shellter Project, maker of a commercial downloader for bypassing antivirus and EDR systems, has reported that hackers are using its Shellter Elite product for attacks. This is because one of...
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