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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...
Elon Musk sues Apple for App Store manipulation
Artificial intelligence is pushing companies to return to in-person interviews
Battle for the Brain! OpenAI and Sam Altman launch Merge Labs, a rival to Neuralink.
Charon Ransomware Arrives. It Surpasses EDR, Is Stealth, and Gives a Nod to Top APTs
Critical Vulnerability in Fortinet: Update FortiOS, FortiProxy, and FortiPAM Now
Critical Update for Google Chrome: Patches for Various Vulnerabilities

Elon Musk sues Apple for App Store manipulation
Redazione RHC - August 13th, 2025
Elon Musk has announced that his company xAI is preparing to sue Apple. The reason is manipulation of App Store rankings, which, he claims, puts OpenAI's ChatGPT in a more...

Artificial intelligence is pushing companies to return to in-person interviews
Redazione RHC - August 13th, 2025
The job search process has been profoundly altered by artificial intelligence, prompting many companies to revive a more traditional approach: face-to-face interviews, as the WSJ points out. Virtual interviews have...

Battle for the Brain! OpenAI and Sam Altman launch Merge Labs, a rival to Neuralink.
Redazione RHC - August 13th, 2025
OpenAI and its co-founder Sam Altman are preparing to back a company that will rival Elon Musk's Neuralink by developing technology to connect the human brain to a computer. The...

Charon Ransomware Arrives. It Surpasses EDR, Is Stealth, and Gives a Nod to Top APTs
Redazione RHC - August 13th, 2025
Trend Micro has detected a targeted attack on the government and aviation sectors in the Middle East using a new ransomware called Charon. The attackers employed a complex infection chain...

Critical Vulnerability in Fortinet: Update FortiOS, FortiProxy, and FortiPAM Now
Redazione RHC - August 13th, 2025
Several Fortinet security products, including FortiOS, FortiProxy, and FortiPAM, are affected by a high-severity authentication evasion vulnerability. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-26009, has a CVSS score of 7.9 and allows...

Critical Update for Google Chrome: Patches for Various Vulnerabilities
Redazione RHC - August 13th, 2025
A critical security update has been released for Google Chrome, which addresses six security vulnerabilities that could be exploited to execute arbitrary code on affected systems. An emergency security update...
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