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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...
China’s Great Firewall blocks internet traffic for 74 minutes
A Criminal Hacker Sells Access to Roche Underground Servers
972 million Google Play VPN users are at risk!
FIDO Downgrade Attacks, a New Authentication Threat
Mozilla Fixes Dangerous RCE Bug in Firefox 142
Spyware under fire! Apple releases a critical patch for a 0day used on iOS and iPadOS

China’s Great Firewall blocks internet traffic for 74 minutes
Redazione RHC - August 22nd, 2025
Researchers from the Great Firewall Report team noticed that on the night of August 20, China's Great Firewall experienced a technical issue or was undergoing some type of testing. All...

A Criminal Hacker Sells Access to Roche Underground Servers
Redazione RHC - August 22nd, 2025
A recent post on an underground forum has attracted the attention of cybersecurity experts. A user claimed to have sold administrative access to Roche, a pharmaceutical giant with over 100,000...

972 million Google Play VPN users are at risk!
Redazione RHC - August 22nd, 2025
Citizen Lab analysts have reported that more than 20 VPN apps on the Google Play Store have serious security issues that threaten users' privacy and allow the decryption of transmitted...

FIDO Downgrade Attacks, a New Authentication Threat
Redazione RHC - August 21st, 2025
Proofpoint researchers have identified a sophisticated downgrade attack that could bypass FIDO-based authentication, exposing targets to adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) threats.These are some of the key findings the researchers found: Using a...

Mozilla Fixes Dangerous RCE Bug in Firefox 142
Redazione RHC - August 21st, 2025
Mozilla has fixed several high-severity security bugs with the release of Firefox 142, preventing attackers from remotely executing code of their choosing on affected systems. The security advisory, published on...

Spyware under fire! Apple releases a critical patch for a 0day used on iOS and iPadOS
Redazione RHC - August 21st, 2025
Apple has released an urgent security patch for iOS and iPadOS to address a critical zero-day vulnerability. This vulnerability, identified as CVE-2025-43300, has been confirmed to be actively exploited in...
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