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- June 22nd, 2025 - (Posted in Cybercrime and Darknet)
Spring 2025 will be remembered as a turning point in our country's cyber chronicle. As bulletins and technical releases follow one another, one fact emerges glaringly: AKIRA has entered the Italian scene heavily. And it has done so without knocking on the door. In the report we publish today, the...

RHC interviews LockBit 3.0. “The main thing is not to start a nuclear war”

- July 26th, 2022

Translator: Tara Lie We often talk about the LockBit Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) operation, recently remodelled as LockBit 3.0, which continues to bring important innovations to the ransomware cyber circus. Often these new...

  

The Superuser Story – The History of #root

- July 26th, 2022

Author: Massimiliano BrolliTranslator: Tara Lie In the beginning there was the Word… Computers, before passing into the era of transistors, were cyclopean machines - heavy and hungry for electricity. They used thermionic...

  

Spacewar! The Story of the First Video Game Created by Hackers at MIT

- July 7th, 2022

Author: Massimiliano BrolliOriginal Publication Date: 19/03/2021Translator: Tara Lie In this exciting story, we will catapult ourselves back to 1958 to MIT’s Tech Model Railroad Club and meet Steve Russel, Steve was one...

  

LockBit 3.0: making the ransomware Great Again

- July 6th, 2022

LockBit is a major player in the ransomware scene and has contributed heavily for this cyber-crime model to become one of the most popular and imitated in the threats landscape....

  

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