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WhatsApp Web in the crosshairs! How the worm that distributes the banking Trojan works
Sophos analysts have discovered a complex malware operation by security experts that uses the popular messaging service WhatsApp to spread banking Trojans, targeting Brazilian banks and cryptocurrency...
RMPocalypse: A critical bug in AMD SEV-SNP threatens cloud security.
A critical vulnerability has been identified in the AMD SEV-SNP hardware security architecture, impacting major cloud providers (AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud) . This flaw allows malicious hy...
Spyware yes, spyware no: it’s just a prospect! NSO Group is now under US control.
Israeli company NSO Group, developer of the infamous Pegasus spyware , recently came under the control of American investors. A company spokesperson announced that the new funding amounts to tens of m...
DAS: The world’s ear hidden in submarine cables
Over 1.2 million kilometers of fiber optic cables lie on the ocean floor, long considered solely part of a global telecommunications network. However, distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) technology , r...
Between AI and fear, Skynet teaches: “We’ll build bunkers before launching AGI.”
The quote, “We’ll definitely build a bunker before we launch AGI,” that inspired the article, was attributed to a Silicon Valley leader, though it’s unclear who exactly he meant by “we.” The phrase pe...
RDP Services Exposed in the Crosshairs! A Botnet of 100,000 IPs Scans the Network
In the United States, a large-scale, coordinated botnet campaign is targeting Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)-based services. The scale and organizational structure of this campaign poses a significant ...
Everyone’s Hacking iPhones! Apple Increases iOS Reward to $5 Million
Apple has significantly expanded its bounty program for security vulnerabilities in the iOS ecosystem. At the Hexacon offensive security conference in Paris, Ivan Krstic, the company’s vice pres...
40,000 iPhones stolen and shipped to Asia: London police arrest international gang
London police announced that Operation Echosteep has uncovered and dismantled a gang responsible for mass iPhone thefts. Investigators estimate the group is responsible for 40% of all phone thefts in ...
Oracle E-Business Suite Zero-Day Attack: Clop Exploits CVE-2025-61882
Last week, Oracle warned customers of a critical zero-day vulnerability in its E-Business Suite (CVE-2025-61882), which allows remote execution of arbitrary code without authentication. It has now bee...
I Want It All! ChatGPT Ready to Become an Operating System
When Nick Turley joined OpenAI in 2022 to lead the ChatGPT team, he was tasked with transforming enterprise research into a commercial product. He has accomplished this mission remarkably well: today,...
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Sophos analysts have discovered a complex malware operation by security experts that uses the popular messaging service WhatsApp to spread banking Trojans, targeting Brazilian banks and cryptocurrency...

A critical vulnerability has been identified in the AMD SEV-SNP hardware security architecture, impacting major cloud providers (AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud) . This flaw allows malicious hy...

Israeli company NSO Group, developer of the infamous Pegasus spyware , recently came under the control of American investors. A company spokesperson announced that the new funding amounts to tens of m...

Over 1.2 million kilometers of fiber optic cables lie on the ocean floor, long considered solely part of a global telecommunications network. However, distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) technology , r...

The quote, “We’ll definitely build a bunker before we launch AGI,” that inspired the article, was attributed to a Silicon Valley leader, though it’s unclear who exactly he meant by “we.” T...
Microsoft launches its “AI factory”: the most powerful supercomputer ever built.
Critical vulnerability in Microsoft Login ID: risk of total takeover
Will you soon be fired? AI surpasses humans in the Coding Olympics.
Two Scattered Spider activists found guilty of TfL cyber attack
NVIDIA’s demise in China! Tech companies ordered to stop purchasing GPUs.
Frontier supercomputer surpasses Fugaku to become world’s fastest

Microsoft launches its “AI factory”: the most powerful supercomputer ever built.
Redazione RHC - September 19th, 2025
Microsoft has unveiled a new generation of data centers designed specifically for artificial intelligence. The flagship facility is called Microsoft Fairwater and is located in Wisconsin. It is the company's...

Critical vulnerability in Microsoft Login ID: risk of total takeover
Redazione RHC - September 19th, 2025
Microsoft has closed a critical bug that could have severely compromised its cloud environments: Dutch researcher Dirk-Jan Mollema discovered two interconnected flaws in the Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory)...

Will you soon be fired? AI surpasses humans in the Coding Olympics.
Redazione RHC - September 19th, 2025
Google DeepMind and OpenAI's artificial intelligence have achieved gold-level results in a competition dubbed the "Programming Olympics." The companies' models demonstrated a level of proficiency comparable to top competitors in...

Two Scattered Spider activists found guilty of TfL cyber attack
Redazione RHC - September 19th, 2025
Two young men involved in the Scattered Spider group have been charged as part of the National Crime Agency investigation into a cyber attack on Transport for London (TfL). On...

NVIDIA’s demise in China! Tech companies ordered to stop purchasing GPUs.
Redazione RHC - September 19th, 2025
Chinese authorities have ordered the country's largest tech companies, including Libaba, ByteDance, and Tencent, to stop purchasing Nvidia GPUs. The order, issued by the state cybersecurity regulator and the Cyberspace...

Frontier supercomputer surpasses Fugaku to become world’s fastest
Redazione RHC - September 19th, 2025
The supercomputer "Fugaku," developed by Fujitsu in collaboration with the RIKEN Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, dominated the rankings of the world's fastest machines for years thanks to its...
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