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Volkswagen is investing in artificial intelligence: one billion euros to reduce costs Cybercrime

Volkswagen is investing in artificial intelligence: one billion euros to reduce costs

Volkswagen announced on the first day of the IAA Mobility international trade fair in Munich its intention to integrate artificial...
Redazione RHC - 11 September 2025
A bug in Google Drive allows access to other people’s files on shared desktops. Cybercrime

A bug in Google Drive allows access to other people’s files on shared desktops.

Millions of people and businesses rely on Google Drive to store contracts, reports, photos, and work documents, using the Windows...
Redazione RHC - 11 September 2025
Former WhatsApp employee: “1,500 engineers have access to confidential user data.” Cybercrime

Former WhatsApp employee: “1,500 engineers have access to confidential user data.”

Attaullah Baig, who reportedly led WhatsApp's security team from 2021 to 2025, has filed a lawsuit against parent company Meta....
Redazione RHC - 11 September 2025
iCloud Calendar Phishing Scam: How It Works and How to Protect Yourself Cybercrime

iCloud Calendar Phishing Scam: How It Works and How to Protect Yourself

It has been discovered that iCloud Calendar invitations have been used to send phishing emails disguised as purchase notifications directly...
Redazione RHC - 11 September 2025
Critical BitLocker Vulnerabilities: Microsoft Patches Two Security Holes Cybercrime

Critical BitLocker Vulnerabilities: Microsoft Patches Two Security Holes

Two significant elevation of privilege vulnerabilities affecting Windows BitLocker encryption have been addressed by Microsoft. These flaws, identified as CVE-2025-54911...
Redazione RHC - 11 September 2025
LockBit 5.0: concrete signs of a possible rebirth? Cybercrime

LockBit 5.0: concrete signs of a possible rebirth?

The ransomware landscape continues to be characterized by dynamics of adaptation and resilience. Even when an international operation seems to...
Pietro Melillo - 11 September 2025

Latvian Government Database Compromised: Over 1.6 Million Government Data Lines!

A malicious actor has claimed to have leaked a database containing over 1.6 million lines of data from the Latvian government. The data breach, dated July 7, 2024, includes all...
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Threat Actors Steal 5.90 GB of Sensitive Data from the Fiscalía General del Estado de Veracruz!

In an era where cybersecurity has become crucial for protecting sensitive data, a recent leak has revealed an alleged security breach at the Fiscalía General del Estado de Veracruz. A...
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Dangerous 0day Windows LPE Vulnerability for Sale in the Underground

A malicious actor, under the name "tikila", has posted an advertisement on a hacking forum for the sale of a local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability for Windows. According to the...
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Europol Breached: Secret Documents for Sale on the Dark Web

July 6, 2024: A well-known user of the BreachForums, IntelBroker, has recently announced the sale of a collection of crypto-related documents stolen from Europol's EPE platform. The data breach, which...
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The New RockYou2024 Collection has been published! 10 Billion Credentials Compromised

Everyone involved with CTF has used the infamous rockyou.txt wordlist at least once, mainly to perform password cracking activities. The file is a list of 14 million unique passwords originating from the 2009...
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Facebook Breach 2024: Sensitive User Data Up for Sale by Hacker on Breach Forums

Recently, a threat actor in an underground forum published an alleged data breach. This incident involves the purported exposure of a substantial Facebook user database. The compromised data includes sensitive...
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Taylor Swift’s Tour at Risk: Hacker Demands $2 Million from Ticketmaster for 170k Stolen Barcodes

A cyber incident has hit Ticketmaster, with a malicious actor issuing a ransom demand, threatening to release sensitive data unless a payment of $2 million USD is made. The hacker...
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Critical Apache Tomcat Vulnerability CVE-2024-34750 Could Bring Your Server to a Halt!

The vulnerability CVE-2024-34750 in Apache Tomcat, as described in the security bulletin AL01/240705/CSIRT-ITA, concerns an issue that can be exploited to overload the server's computing resources, leading to a Denial...
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Threat Actors: Alleged Data Breach of Ukraine Traffic Police

Recently, a threat actor in an underground forum published an alleged data breach. The leak purportedly involves sensitive information from the Ukraine traffic police (GAI). The data, spanning millions of...
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Serious Vulnerability in Windows Systems: Here’s How an Attacker Can Gain Complete Control of Your PC

A severe security vulnerability has been discovered in MSI Center, a widely used software on Windows systems. This flaw, classified as CVE-2024-37726 and with a CVSS score of 7.8 (high), allows a low-privileged attacker...
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Red Hot Cyber and Hack The Box: together for the CTF at the RHC 2026 conference
Redazione RHC - 21/01/2026

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Everest Ransomware Attacks McDonald’s, 861GB Data Stolen
Redazione RHC - 21/01/2026

Yesterday, the Everest cybercriminal gang claimed responsibility for a cyberattack on McDonald’s on their Data Leak Site (DLS) . From the gang’s post, the cybercriminals claim to have 861GB of data exfiltrated from the company’s…

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ESXi Zero-Day Exploit: How to Protect Your VMware Environment
Redazione RHC - 20/01/2026

A group of attackers is using a zero-day exploit toolkit to compromise VMware ESXi instances in an uncontrolled manner, taking advantage of multiple vulnerabilities to bypass virtual machine restrictions. The current incident highlights the ongoing…

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Google Fast Pair Vulnerability: WhisperPair Exposes Millions of Devices
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Researchers from the Cybersecurity and Industrial Cryptography team at KU Leuven have discovered a critical flaw in the Google Fast Pair protocol. The vulnerability allows attackers to hijack control of millions of Bluetooth devices, track…

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Elon Musk Sues OpenAI for $134 Billion Over AI Betrayal
Redazione RHC - 19/01/2026

Elon Musk has filed a staggering $134 billion in damages in a malicious lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft. According to Bloomberg , the latest lawsuit accuses OpenAI of betraying its core mission as a nonprofit…