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Skynet is coming: the malware that attacks Artificial Intelligence!

Redazione RHC - June 27th, 2025 - (Posted in Cybercrime and Darknet)

An unusual example of malicious code has been discovered in a real computing environment, which for the first time recorded an attempt to attack not classical defense mechanisms, but directly artificial intelligence systems. We are talking about the prompt injection technique, i.e. the introduction of hidden instructions capable of compromising...

Cybercrime and Darknet

Scam Alert: How I Almost Fell for a Million-Dollar

My name is Elena and I am a 35-year-old housewife. One day, while I was checking my email, I found a mail that caught my attention. The sender introduced himself as Jean-Pierre, a 60-year-old Italian-French man, terminally ill with cancer.

Antonio Piovesan 09/03/2024

Cybercrime and Darknet

The First Message Sent in the History of the Internet

Original Publication Date: Massimiliano Brolli, 25 September 2021 Today, exchanging a message through WhatsApp or Skype is a normal gesture, part of the activities we carry out in our daily lives. In all the history books, it is reported that

Tara Lie 22/02/2024

Cybercrime and Darknet

HijackLoader Expands Techniques to Improve Defense Evasion

Donato Onofri e Emanuele Calvelli Endpoint Security & XDR CrowdStrike. CrowdStrike researchers have identified a HijackLoader (aka IDAT Loader) sample that employs sophisticated evasion techniques to enhance the complexity of the threat. HijackLoader, an increasingly popular tool among adversaries for deploying additional

Redazione RHC 22/02/2024

Articles

The Deception of the Wallet: A Journey into the World of Scammers

Giorgio sat in the self-help circle, the dim candlelight dancing on the walls. The eyes of the other participants were fixed on him, waiting for him to speak. It was time to share his story, to unburden himself from the

Antonio Piovesan 16/02/2024

Cybercrime and Darknet

Ghost Exodus: the story of a hacker in a documentary that has a lot to teach

Ghost Exodus through the exclusive documentary “How Hacking Ruined My Life: Ghost Exodus Story” produced by Silva Rindzevi and visible on the CyberNews Youtube channel, broke the silence to tell us the long road traveled and the consequences of what

Olivia Terragni 29/11/2023

Technology Evolution

Signal towards the Future: Post Quantum Cryptography now protects our messages

Translator: Tara Lie Signal has announced that it has improved encryption within its messenger application. Its end-to-end communication protocol now uses quantum-resistant cryptographic keys, making it resistant to future attacks by quantum computers. Quantum computers – that at the moment

Tara Lie 25/09/2023