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The Russian Federation’s Roskomnadzor has announced that it continues to impose systematic restrictions on the messaging app WhatsApp due to violations of Russian law. According to the agency, the s...
The Shai-Hulud worm has spread beyond the npm ecosystem and was discovered in Maven . Socket specialists noticed an infected package on Maven Central containing the same malicious components used in t...
Artificial intelligence is currently capable of performing work equivalent to 11.7% of US employment . And not just in theory: in terms of monetary value, this value is already comparable to the salar...
The Tor project has announced the introduction of a new encryption scheme, called Counter Galois Onion (CGO) , intended to replace the previous Tor1 Relay method. The update aims to strengthen network...
A group of members of the European Parliament have called for Microsoft to abandon its internal use of products and switch to European solutions. Their initiative stems from growing concerns about the...
Fox Kitten and Br0k3r: The Iranian Cyber Contractor Collaborating with Ransomware Gangs
REvil: Sentenced but then set free. The most controversial court case ever
Shock in France: the gentlemen of BreachForums were twenty-year-old French citizens!
Zero-Click Attack on Notepad++. HackerHood Tested the Exploit and It Really Works with Little
22,000 Sites At Risk: New Motors WordPress Vulnerability Allows Total Hacking
Qilin & Associates Law Firm: Ransomware Hires Lawyers, Launches “Intimidation Package”
Fox Kitten and Br0k3r: The Iranian Cyber Contractor Collaborating with Ransomware Gangs
Redazione RHC - June 25th, 2025
We continue our series of articles on IABs by writing about an Iranian cyber contractor that not only works as an initial access broker but also provides support to ransomware...
REvil: Sentenced but then set free. The most controversial court case ever
Redazione RHC - June 25th, 2025
Do you remember the infamous REvil cyber gang? The Russian hacker group responsible for some of the most devastating ransomware attacks in the early days of this global threat, known...
Shock in France: the gentlemen of BreachForums were twenty-year-old French citizens!
Redazione RHC - June 24th, 2025
Shocking news in France: one of the largest global cybercrime networks dismantled. The BreachForum hackers were… French. French authorities have busted a large cybercrime operation, arresting five young French hackers...
Zero-Click Attack on Notepad++. HackerHood Tested the Exploit and It Really Works with Little
Redazione RHC - June 24th, 2025
A dangerous vulnerability has been discovered in the latest version of the popular text editor Notepad++ that allows an attacker togain complete control over the system. The vulnerability has been...
22,000 Sites At Risk: New Motors WordPress Vulnerability Allows Total Hacking
Redazione RHC - June 24th, 2025
Attackers are actively exploiting a critical privilege escalation vulnerability in the WordPress Motors theme, allowing them to hijack administrator accounts and take complete control of the target site. The malicious activity was...
Qilin & Associates Law Firm: Ransomware Hires Lawyers, Launches “Intimidation Package”
Redazione RHC - June 24th, 2025
The developers of the Qilin ransomware (recently interviewed by us) offered their partners the help and advice of a team of lawyers, so that they could put pressure on the...
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