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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...
$16 billion in stolen Apple, Meta, and Google credentials up for sale for $121,000
The Darklab team, Red Hot Cyber‘s community of threat intelligence experts, has identified an ad on the dark web marketplace “Tor Amazon”, the criminal counterpart of the popular e-commerce site on th...
Red Hot Cyber Conference 2026: Sponsorships Open for the Fifth Edition in Rome
The Red Hot Cyber Conference has become a regular event for the Red Hot Cyber community and for anyone working in or interested in the world of digital technologies and cybersecurity. The fifth editio...
Hexstrike AI unleashes chaos! Zero-days exploited in record time
The release of Hexstrike-AI marks a turning point in the cybersecurity landscape. The framework, billed as a next-generation tool for red teams and researchers, is capable of orchestrating over 150 sp...
LockBit 5.0: Signs of a New and Possible “Rebirth”?
LockBit represents one of the longest-running and most structured ransomware gangs of recent years, with a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) model that has profoundly impacted the criminal ecosystem. Fol...
The KING of DDoS! Cloudflare blocks a monstrous 11.5 terabit-per-second attack.
The record for the largest DDoS attack ever recorded in June 2025 has already been broken. Cloudflare said it recently blocked the largest DDoS attack in history, which peaked at 11.5 Tbps. “Cloudflar...
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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...

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 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...

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...

Artificial intelligence systems have been criticized for creating confusing vulnerability reports and inundating open-source developers with irrelevant complaints. But researchers at Nanjing Universit...
Critical vulnerabilities in NetScaler ADC and Gateway. Update now! Attacks are ongoing!
The Democratization of Cybercrime Has Arrived! “I Can’t Code, But I Write Ransomware”
FreePBX under attack: Zero-day exploit already in use, emergency patch released
Storm-0501: When Ransomware Moves to the Cloud
Microsoft Teams crashes: Embedded Office documents blocked from opening
ChatGPT “Taught My Son How to Die”! Adam Reid’s Parents Sue OpenAI

Critical vulnerabilities in NetScaler ADC and Gateway. Update now! Attacks are ongoing!
Redazione RHC - August 28th, 2025
NetScaler has alerted administrators of three new vulnerabilities in NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway, one of which is already being used in active attacks. Updates are available and the vendor...

The Democratization of Cybercrime Has Arrived! “I Can’t Code, But I Write Ransomware”
Redazione RHC - August 28th, 2025
Cybercriminals are rapidly mastering generative AI, and we're no longer talking about "scary" ransom notes, but about full-fledged malware development. The Anthropic research team reported that attackers are increasingly relying...

FreePBX under attack: Zero-day exploit already in use, emergency patch released
Luca Galuppi - August 28th, 2025
The world of VoIP telephony has once again ended up in the crosshairs of cybercriminals. This time it's FreePBX, the open-source platform built on Asterisk and widely used by companies,...

Storm-0501: When Ransomware Moves to the Cloud
Luca Galuppi - August 28th, 2025
Microsoft is raising the alarm: the Storm-0501 cybercriminal group has evolved. No more "traditional" attacks on on-premise machines, no more ransomware that encrypts local files. Now the threat is moving...

Microsoft Teams crashes: Embedded Office documents blocked from opening
Luca Galuppi - August 28th, 2025
A Black Thursday for millions of Microsoft Teams users around the world. A key feature of the collaboration platform – opening embedded Office documents – has suddenly been knocked out,...

ChatGPT “Taught My Son How to Die”! Adam Reid’s Parents Sue OpenAI
Redazione RHC - August 28th, 2025
A lawsuit has been filed against OpenAI in California, alleging that ChatGPT driven a 16-year-old to commit suicide. The parents of Adam Reid, who died on April 11, 2025, said...
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