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Zscaler Data Breach: Lessons Learned About the Evolution of SaaS Threats Cybercrime

Zscaler Data Breach: Lessons Learned About the Evolution of SaaS Threats

Zscaler's recent confirmation of a data breach resulting from a supply chain attack provides a case study in the evolution...
Ada Spinelli - 2 September 2025
Zscaler Suffers Data Breach: Supply Chain Attack Via Salesloft Drift Cybercrime

Zscaler Suffers Data Breach: Supply Chain Attack Via Salesloft Drift

A large-scale cyberattack has targeted security firm Zscaler, which has officially confirmed it was the victim of a supply chain...
Redazione RHC - 2 September 2025
The new cybersecurity battlefield? Your brain! Cybercrime

The new cybersecurity battlefield? Your brain!

Welcome to the first installment of our series, a three-week journey exploring the extraordinary dance between coevolution, cybersecurity, and the...
Daniela Farina - 2 September 2025
Wikipedia under the US Congress’s scrutiny: when freedom of expression becomes “under special surveillance” Cybercrime

Wikipedia under the US Congress’s scrutiny: when freedom of expression becomes “under special surveillance”

On August 27, 2025, the Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia, received an official letter from the Committee on Oversight and...
Sandro Sana - 2 September 2025
From AI chatbots to global data theft: The Drift flaw rocks Google Workspace. Cybercrime

From AI chatbots to global data theft: The Drift flaw rocks Google Workspace.

Last week, it emerged that criminal hackers had compromised the sales automation platform Salesloft and stolen OAuth and update tokens...
Redazione RHC - 2 September 2025
Confidentiality vs. Privacy: The Concept Everyone Confuses (and Why It’s Dangerous) Culture

Confidentiality vs. Privacy: The Concept Everyone Confuses (and Why It’s Dangerous)

Every day we hear about privacy in every aspect of our lives, so much so that the term has entered...
Antonino Battaglia - 2 September 2025

Data Brokers: How Law Enforcement Rely on Inaccurate Data to Supplement Investigations

Author: Jesse McGraw, alias Ghost ExodusPublication date: 11/06/2022 Government public record databases apparently help law enforcement officials save lives, prevent further crimes from being committed by perpetrators, and also provide...
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The “Mother of all Demos”. Douglas Englebart’s Vision of the Future

Author: Massimiliano BrolliOriginal Publication Date: 12/05/2022Translator: Tara Lie The “Mother of all Demos'' is the name retrospectively used by journalist Steven Levy, in his 1994 book ‘Insanely Great’, to describe a revolutionary...
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Vannevar Bush’s Visionary Essay: “As We May Think”.

Author: Massimiliano BrolliOriginal Publication Date: 15/11/2021Translator: Tara Lie Today I would like to bring a visionary essay to light, a source of inspiration for many scientists that have contributed to...
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RHC ransomware Data Room – January 2022

Author: Dott. Luca Mella, Cyber Security Expert (founder doubleextortion.com) Translate: Vincenzo Marcovecchio Pubblication Date: 5/02/2022 In recent years, the ransomware phenomenon has been so disruptive that it heavily influences the...
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Why privacy does not exist

Privacy, privacy, privacy, ... privacy comes first. How many times have we heard this sentence? Yes, because we talk a lot about this topic, we talk about it at work,...
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Electronic warfare between the USA, China, South and North Korea (part two)

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...
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North Korea’s cyberwarfare and its cyber army (part one)

Author: Olivia Terragni During the night, only one bright spot lights up in North Korea: the city of Pyongyang. Perhaps, due to the dark that surrounds it, we understand so...
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Making the cyber world a safer and better place: an interview with W1ntermute

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...
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Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage, pioneers of programmable computing

Author: Antonio Piovesan Great Britain, middle decades of the 19th century, times of unprecedented engineering ambitions. Engineering, transportation, communications, architecture, science and manufacturing are in a feverish state of evolution....
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Dharma/Crysis: Overview and adversary tracking

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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Redazione RHC - 27/12/2025

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Redazione RHC - 26/12/2025

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Redazione RHC - 25/12/2025

An ad has surfaced on a closed underground forum frequented by malware operators and initial access brokers, attracting the attention of the cyber threat intelligence community. The post promotes “NtKiller,” a supposed “kernel-level” utility designed…

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Webrat Malware Targets Security Researchers with GitHub Exploit Traps
Redazione RHC - 24/12/2025

There’s a specific moment, almost always at night, when curiosity overtakes caution. A newly opened repository, few stars but a success. very high score, the README file is well written enough to seem real. This…

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A backdoor in NVIDIA code. Three 9.8 bugs plague AI and robotics development systems
Redazione RHC - 24/12/2025

When it comes to cybersecurity, you can never be too careful. Furthermore, when we talk about backdoors (or alleged ones), the question that follows is: who inserted them? Was it for maintenance purposes or for…